Found 2 items, similar to Left-handed.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: left-handed left-handed adj 1: using or intended for the lefts hand; “left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs”; “left-handed scissors” [ant: ambidextrous, right-handed] 2: (of marriages) illicit or informal; “in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent” 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 [syn: morganatic] 4: rotating to the left [syn: levorotary, levorotatory] 5: ironically ambiguous; “a left-handed compliment” 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 [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Left-handed Left-handed \Left"-hand`ed\, a. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. [1913 Webster] The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. --Landor. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] Left-handed marriage, a morganatic marriage. See Morganatic. Left-handed screw, a screw constructed to advance away from the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed. [1913 Webster]