Main entry: left-handed
Definition: using or intended for the left hand
Usage: left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs; left-handed scissors
Antonyms: right-handed
Definition: using or intended for the right hand
Antonyms: ambidextrous, two-handed
Definition: equally skillful with each hand
Antonyms: right
Definition: location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
Antonyms: right
Definition: of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
Antonyms: center
Definition: of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
Antonyms: right
Definition: being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north
Antonyms: right
Definition: toward or on the right; also used figuratively
Antonyms: dextral
Definition: of or on the right
Main entry: left-handed
Definition: (of marriages) illicit or informal
Usage: in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
Antonyms: legitimate
Definition: of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
Main entry: left-handed, morganatic
Definition: (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
Antonyms: illegitimate
Definition: of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
Main entry: left-handed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered
Definition: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
Usage: 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
Antonyms: adroit
Definition: quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
Main entry: left-handed
Definition: ironically ambiguous
Usage: a left-handed compliment
Antonyms: unambiguous
Definition: having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning
Main entry: left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory
Definition: rotating to the left
Antonyms: clockwise
Definition: in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock
Antonyms: clockwise
Definition: in the direction that the hands of a clock move