Definition of Left-handedness in English :

Define Left-handedness in English

Left-handedness meaning in English

Meaning of Left-handedness in English

Pronunciation of Left-handedness in English

Left-handedness pronunciation in English

Pronounce Left-handedness in English

Left-handedness

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Noun

1. left-handedness

the status of being born of a morganatic marriage

2. left-handedness, sinistrality

preference for using the left hand

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Left-handedness

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adjective
1. 
using the left hand with greater ease than the right
2. 
performed with the left hand
3. 
designed or adapted for use by the left hand
4. 
worn on the left hand
5. 
awkward or clumsy
6. 
ironically ambiguous
a left-handed compliment
7. 
turning from right to left; anticlockwise
8. law another term for morganatic
adverb
9. 
with the left hand

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Left-handedness

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adjective
1. 
using the left hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the right
2. 
done with the left hand
3. 
clumsy; awkward
4. 
designating an insincere or ambiguous compliment; backhanded (sense 2)
5. 
morganatic
from the custom of having the groom give his left hand to the bride at such a wedding
6. 
made for use with the left hand or by left-handed people
7. 
turning from right to left; worked by counterclockwise motion
8. 
designating one who swings a bat, club, etc. rightward
9. 
having an asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that is conventionally viewed as having certain components on the left side: said of an isomer that is the mirror image of one that is right-handed
adverb
10. 
with the left hand
to write left-handed
11. 
in such a way that the bat, club, etc. swings rightward

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Left-handedness

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adj.
1.
a. Using the left hand more skillfully or easily than the right.
b. Sports Swinging from left to right: a left-handed batter; a left-handed golfer.
2.
a. Done with the left hand.
b. Intended for wear on or use by the left hand: left-handed scissors.
3. Awkward; maladroit.
4. Of doubtful sincerity; dubious: left-handed flattery; a left-handed compliment.
5. Of, relating to, or born of a morganatic marriage.
6.
a. Turning or spiraling from right to left; counterclockwise.
b. Rotating counterclockwise; levorotatory.
adv.
1. With the left hand.
2. Sports From the left to the right: swings left-handed.

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