left-handed /lɛftˈhændɪd/adjective 7noun 1 adjective7 •Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. •Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. •seeming to praise but really meant to hurt or insultThe commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive. — 1824 •turning or winding counterclockwise, used especially of screws and spirals •Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule. •lacking skill in moving the body or in doing tasks, clumsy •(of magic and secret religious practices) breaking accepted moral and religious rules, often in order to harm others, as black magic doesOn the other hand, nearly all magic tends in time to the left-handed path; as being a devious means of attaining desires unobtainable by ordinary methods. — 1936 noun[plural only]1 •Left-handed people, taken as a whole.
