Left-handed – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Handedness
Handedness is a better (faster or more precise) performance or individual
preference for use of a
hand, known as the
dominant hand. Handedness is not a discrete variable (right or left), but a continuous one that can be expressed at levels between strong left and strong right.
left-handed
Adjective
1. using or intended for the lefts hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
(antonym) ambidextrous, two-handed
(similar) left(a), left-hand(a)
(see-also) sinistral
2. (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
(similar) illegitimate
3. (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
(synonym) morganatic
(similar) legitimate
4. rotating to the left
(synonym) levorotary, levorotatory
(similar) counterclockwise, anticlockwise, contraclockwise
5. ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
(similar) ambiguous
6. 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
(synonym) bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed
(similar) maladroit
left-handed
n.
leváctví; užívající levou ruku; levostranný
left-handed
Przym.
leworęczny; dla leworęcznych
Left-handed
(a.)
Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.
(a.)
Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given direction.
(a.)
Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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