Synonyms: 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
Similar words: maladroit
Definition: not adroit
Usage: a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve; a maladroit translation; maladroit propaganda
Synonyms: left-handed
Definition: ironically ambiguous
Usage: a left-handed compliment
Similar words: ambiguous
Definition: having more than one possible meaning
Usage: ambiguous words; frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory
Definition: rotating to the left
Similar words: counterclockwise, contraclockwise, anticlockwise
Definition: in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: legitimate
Definition: of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
Synonyms: left-handed
Definition: (of marriages) illicit or informal
Usage: in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
Similar words: illegitimate
Definition: of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
Synonyms: left-handed
Definition: using or intended for the left hand
Usage: left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs; left-handed scissors
Similar words: left, left-hand
Definition: intended for the left hand
Usage: I rarely lose a left-hand glove
Similar words: sinistral
Definition: preferring to use left foot or hand or eye
Usage: sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye