left-handed

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
2. (not-comparable) Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
3. (not-comparable) Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
4. (not-comparable) Awkward or maladroit.
5. (not-comparable) Insincere or malicious.
6. (not-comparable) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path
7. (not-comparable) Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.

Noun

Left-handed people, taken as a whole.

Sinonieme

morganatic

left

levorotary

levorotatory

counterclockwise

clumsy

ham-fisted

ham-handed

handless

heavy-handed

ambiguous

awkward

bumbling

bungling

butterfingered

insincere

sinistral

southpaw

be left-handed

left-hand

lefthanded

left-hander

lefty

doubtful

backhanded

inverted hour

sinistrorse

levogyric

to the left

unofficial

counter-clockwise

left-handed person

laevorotary

levogyrate

anticlockwise

sinistrogyric

lefty

left hander

lefthander

inhour

inverse hour

hypocritical

informal

morganatical

dubious

Vertalings

gaucher

mancino

zurdo

canhoto

linkshändig

esquerrà

gauchère

solak

torpe

laevus levus

lévogyre

linksseitig

Linkshänder

morganatique

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: left handyd

In summary

From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.

Sinne

Nicknamed " Scoop ", Oliver batted and threw left-handed .