Left-Handed
Related Definitions
[adj] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "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
[adj] ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
[adj] rotating to the left
[adj] (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
[adj] (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
[adj] using or intended for the lefts hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
Synonyms
ambiguous, anticlockwise, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, contraclockwise, counterclockwise, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, illegitimate, left(a), left-hand(a), legitimate, levorotary, levorotatory, maladroit, morganatic, sinistral
Related Terms
abusive, all thumbs, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, calumnious, careless, circuitous, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, contumelious, cumbersome, deflectional, degrading, de