left-handed meaning and definition

LEFT-HANDED adjective

Definition of left-handed (adjective)

1. using or intended for the left hand
   • "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
   • antonym: ambidextrous
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
   • synonyms: morganatic
4. rotating to the left
   • synonyms: levorotary, levorotatory
5. ironically ambiguous
   • "a left-handed compliment"
6. lacking physical movement skills, 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
   • synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed