Left-handed: a Definition

Definition – Left-handedness

[Noun] Habitual use of the left hand, or rather the ability to use the left hand with more ease and strength than the right.

Source: Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

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Definition - Left-handed

adj

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. (Historical Terms) (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) Law another term for morganatic

adv

with the left hand

left-handedly  adv

left-handedness  n

Source: Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

Originally posted on Wednesday, 06 April 2011