left-handed
1. [ adjective ] ironically ambiguous
Examples:

"a left-handed compliment"

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"

Related terms: illegitimate
5. [ adjective ] using or intended for the lefts hand
Examples:

"left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs" "left-handed scissors"

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"

Related terms: right-handed ambidextrous left sinistral
7. [ adjective ] ironically ambiguous
Examples:

"a left-handed compliment"

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

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"

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

Related terms: maladroit
Similar spelling:   left-hand
  left-hander
  left_hand
  lefthander
  left_hander
  left-winger
  left-wing