| ADJECTIVE | all | left-handed | using or intended for the left hand |
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| all | left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal | |
| all | left-handed, morganatic | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank | |
| all | left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory | rotating to the left | |
| all | left-handed | ironically ambiguous | |
| all | left-handed, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands |
| Meaning | Using or intended for the left hand. | |
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| Narrower | left, left-hand | Intended for the left hand |
| sinistral | preferring to use left foot or hand or eye | |
| See also | left | Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north |
| sinistral | Of or on the left | |
| Opposite | ambidextrous, two-handed | Equally skillful with each hand |
| right-handed | Using or intended for the right hand | |
| Spanish | zurdo | |
| Catalan | esquerrà | |
| Nouns | left-handedness | preference for using the left hand |
| Meaning | (of marriages) illicit or informal. | |
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| Example | "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" | |
| Broader | illegitimate | Of marriages and offspring |
| Meaning | (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. | |
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| Synonym | morganatic | |
| Broader | legitimate | Of marriages and offspring |
| Spanish | morganático | |
| Catalan | morganàtic | |
| Meaning | Rotating to the left. | |
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| Synonyms | levorotary, levorotatory | |
| Broader | counterclockwise, anticlockwise, contraclockwise | In the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock |
| Spanish | sinistrorso | |
| Catalan | sinistrors | |
| Meaning | ironically ambiguous. | |
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| Example | "a left-handed compliment" | |
| Broader | ambiguous | Having more than one possible meaning / meaning |
| Meaning | Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands. | |
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| Synonyms | bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed | |
| Broader | maladroit | not adroit |
| Spanish | manazas, torpe | |
| Catalan | graponer, maldestre, matusser | |
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