left-handed - Meaning in Kannada

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left-handed - Meaning in Kannada

Definitions and Meaning of left-handed in English

left-handed adjective

1. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

   Synonyms

   bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed

   Examples

   • "a bumbling mechanic"
   • "a bungling performance"
   • "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"
   • "ham-handed governmental interference"
2. ironically ambiguous

   Example

   • "a left-handed compliment"
3. rotating to the left

   Synonyms

   levorotary, levorotatory

4. (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

   Synonyms

   morganatic

5. (of marriages) illicit or informal

   Example

   • "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
6. using or intended for the left hand

   Examples

   • "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"
   • "left-handed scissors"

Synonyms of left-handed

• bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed
• levorotary, levorotatory
• morganatic

Antonyms of left-handed

ambidextrous, two-handed, right-handed

Description

In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dextrous or simply less subjectively preferred, is called the non-dominant hand. In a study from 1975 on 7,688 children in US grades 1–6, left handers comprised 9.6% of the sample, with 10.5% of male children and 8.7% of female children being left-handed. Overall, around 90% of people are right-handed. Handedness is often defined by one's writing hand, as it is fairly common for people to prefer to do a particular task with a particular hand. There are people with true ambidexterity, but it is rare—most people prefer using one hand for most purposes.

Also see "Handedness" on Wikipedia

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