 left-handed |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] ironically ambiguous | |
| Examples: | "a left-handed compliment" |
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| Related terms: | ambiguous | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] rotating to the left | |
| Synonyms: | levorotatory levorotary | |
| Related terms: | counterclockwise | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | |
| Synonyms: | morganatic | |
| Related terms: | legitimate | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (of marriages) illicit or informal | |
| Examples: | "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" |
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| Related terms: | illegitimate | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] using or intended for the lefts hand | |
| Examples: | "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs" "left-handed scissors" |
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| Related terms: | ambidextrous right-handed left sinistral left sinistral | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] using or intended for the lefts hand | |
| Examples: | "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs" "left-handed scissors" |
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| Related terms: | right-handed ambidextrous left sinistral | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] ironically ambiguous | |
| Examples: | "a left-handed compliment" |
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| Related terms: | ambiguous | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] rotating to the left | |
| Synonyms: | levorotatory levorotary | |
| Related terms: | counterclockwise | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands | |
| Synonyms: | heavy-handed bungling ham-fisted ham-handed handless butterfingered bumbling | |
| Examples: | "a bumbling mechanic" "a bungling performance" "ham-handed governmental interference" "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse |
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| Related terms: | maladroit | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | |
| Synonyms: | morganatic | |
| Related terms: | legitimate | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] (of marriages) illicit or informal | |
| Examples: | "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" |
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| Related terms: | illegitimate | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands | |
| Synonyms: | heavy-handed bungling ham-fisted ham-handed handless butterfingered bumbling | |
| Examples: | "a bumbling mechanic" "a bungling performance" "ham-handed governmental interference" "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse |
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| Related terms: | maladroit | |
| Similar spelling: |
left-hand left-hander left_hand lefthander left_hander left-winger left-wing |
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