DICTOMETER

LEFT-HANDED

1. Synonyms:
   • Left-handed
   Definitions:
   • using or intended for the left hand
   Examples:
   • Left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs
   • Left-handed scissors
   Antonyms:
   • AMBIDEXTROUS
   • equipoised right-handed (vs. left-handed) (vs. ambidextrous)
   • dextral
   • right(prenominal), right-hand(prenominal)
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Left-handed
   Definitions:
   • (of marriages) illicit or informal
   Examples:
   • In Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
   Antonyms:
   • Legitimate
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Morganatic
   • Left-handed
   Definitions:
   • (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
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Levorotary
   • Levorotatory
   • Left-handed
   Definitions:
   • rotating to the left
   Antonyms:
   • Clockwise
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Left-handed
   Definitions:
   • ironically ambiguous
   Examples:
   • A left-handed compliment
   Antonyms:
   • Unambiguous
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Bumbling
   • Bungling
   • Butterfingered
   • Ham-fisted
   • Ham-handed
   • Handless
   • Heavy-handed
   • Left-handed
   Definitions:
   • lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
   Examples:
   • 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