Left-handed synonyms

lĕft'hăn'dĭd

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southpaw
Left-handed
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sinistrous
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butterfingered
Prone to dropping things; clumsy
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ambidextrous (antonym)
Able to use both hands with equal ease
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disingenuous
The definition of disingenuous is insincere, deceptive or misleading.
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levorotary
rotating to the left
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backhanded
Backhanded is defined as a stroke in sports that is done with the palm of the hand turned towards the body.
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dexterous (antonym)
Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully.
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sincere (antonym)
Meant truly or earnestly.
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honest (related)
Characterized by truth; not false:
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ham-fisted
Ham-handed.
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ham-handed
Having unusually large hands.
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handless
(Dial.) Inexpert, clumsy, or awkward
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heavy-handed
Clumsy; awkward.
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levorotatory
(Chemistry, of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise.
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morganatic
Designating a marriage (the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank, often having various legal repercussions (typically that such a wife has no claim on the husband's possessions or title). It was not an aspect of English law, but was common in other royal houses, especially in Germany.
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right-handed (related)
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lefthanded (related)
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clumsy
The definition of clumsy is someone or something that is shaped, made or moves awkwardly.
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careless
The definition of careless is not paying proper attention to detail or not taking care to do something well enough or correctly.
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gauche
Lacking grace, esp. social grace; awkward; tactless
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awkward (related)
Difficult to effect; uncomfortable:
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ambilevous
(Rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
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dubious
Feeling doubt; hesitating; skeptical
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insincere
Habitually phony or dishonest:
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maladroit
Marked by a lack of adroitness; inept.
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sinister
Suggesting or threatening harm or evil:
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sinistral
Having whorls that rise to the apex in clockwise spirals from the opening at the lower left
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abusive
Characterized by improper or wrongful use:
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degrading
Tending or intended to degrade:
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insolent
(Archaic) Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
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insulting
The act of giving insult.
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offensive
Of, relating to, or designed for attack:
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mala fide
With or in bad faith.
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bumbling
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; ; ; ; - Mary H. Vorse
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Find another word for left-handed. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for left-handed, like: southpaw, sinistrous, butterfingered, ambidextrous, disingenuous, levorotary, backhanded, dexterous, sincere, honest and bungling.
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Left-handed Sentence Examples

  • Leonardo appears to have been left-handed.

  • Next he sought to prepare the inactive form of the acid by artificial means; and after great and long-continued labour he succeeded, and was led to the commencement of his classical researches on fermentation, by the observation that when the inactive acid was placed in contact with a special form of mould (Penicillium glaucum) the right-handed acid alone was destroyed, the left-handed variety remained unchanged.

  • The wire is subject to two superposed magnetizations, the one longitudinal, the other circular, due to the current traversing the wire; the resultant magnetization is consequently in the direction of a screw or spiral round the wire, which will be right-handed or left-handed according as the relation between the two magnetizations is right-handed or left-handed; the magnetic expansion or contraction of the metal along the spiral lines of magnetization produces the Wiedemann twist.

  • As a consequence of the structure of the molecule, which is an aggregation of atoms, the planes of the orbits around the latter may be oriented in various positions, and the direction of revolution may be right-handed or left-handed with respect to the direction of any applied magnetic field.

  • For those orbits whose projection upon a plane perpendicular to the field is righthanded, the period of revolution will be accelerated by the field (since the electron current is negative), and the magnetic moment consequently increased; for those which are left-handed, the period will be retarded and the moment diminished.

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