Left-handed

//lɛftˈhændɪd//

Synonyms for "left-handed" (69 found)

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Closest matches (14)

abusive all thumbs ambidextrous atrocious awkward backhanded blunderheaded boorish careless circuitous

Adjective(3 words)

bumbling bungling butterfingered

Adjective(1 words)

click-handed

Strong matches (21)

Related words (34)

hulking humiliating hypocritical indirect inelegant insolent insulting loutish lumbering lumpish maladroit oafish oblique offensive outrageous ponderous scurrilous side sidelong sinister

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sloppy stiff uncouth ungainly ungraceful unhandy unspeakable unwieldy

Adjective(3 words)

levorotary levorotatory morganatic

Noun(2 words)

sinistral southpaw

Adjective(1 words)

sinistromanual

Related word relations

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4 relation types

Antonyms

2 entries

ambidextrous right-handed

Related terms

1 entries

left-hander

derived

12 entries

left-handed anti-neutrino left-handed cigarette left-handed compliment left-handed marriage left-handed monkey wrench left-handed path left-handed smoke shifter left-handed specialist left-handedly left-handedness leftie lefty

similar

10 entries

ambiguous anticlockwise contraclockwise counterclockwise illegitimate left left-hand legitimate maladroit sinistral

Translations

82 translations across 55 languages.

Arabic

3 entries

أَشْوَل adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
أَعْسَر adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
أَيْسَر adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Armenian

1 entries

ձախլիկ adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

solaxay adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Bashkir

1 entries

һулаҡай adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Basque

1 entries

ezkerti adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Bulgarian

1 entries

левичар adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Catalan

1 entries

esquerrà adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎠᎦᏍᎦᏂᏓ adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

左利手 adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
左撇子 adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Czech

2 entries

levoruký adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
levácký adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Danish

2 entries

kejthåndet adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
venstrehåndet adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Dutch

1 entries

linkshandig adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Faroese

2 entries

lámur adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
vinstrhentur adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Finnish

1 entries

vasenkätinen adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

French

1 entries

gaucher adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Galician

4 entries

cochaino adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
esquerdeiro adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
esquerdo adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
manicho adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

German

1 entries

linkshändig adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Greek

1 entries

αριστερόχειρας adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

goche adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Hebrew

2 entries

אִטֵּר adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
שמאלי adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Hindi

1 entries

बाएँ हत्था adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Hungarian

1 entries

balkezes adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Icelandic

1 entries

örvhentur adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Indonesian

1 entries

kidal adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Irish

1 entries

ciotach adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Italian

1 entries

mancino adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Japanese

1 entries

左利き adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Kapampangan

1 entries

kinayli adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Korean

1 entries

왼손잡이 adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Ladin

1 entries

ciancané adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Lithuanian

1 entries

kairiarankis adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Macedonian

1 entries

леворак adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Malay

1 entries

kidal adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Mongolian

1 entries

солгой adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Māori

1 entries

hemarehe adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

keivhendt adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
venstrehendt adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

keivhendt adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
venstrehendt adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

صولاق adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Polish

2 entries

leworęczny adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
leworęki adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Portuguese

2 entries

canhoto adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
sestro adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Romanian

1 entries

stângaci adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Russian

1 entries

левору́кий adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Scots

4 entries

caur adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
caur-haundit adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
caurie adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
caurie-fistit adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

cearragach adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
ceàrr-làmhach adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
clì-làmhach adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
leis a' chearrag adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Slovak

1 entries

ľavoruký adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Spanish

4 entries

sinistrómano adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
zocato adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
zoco adj (preferring the left hand over the right)
zurdo adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Swedish

1 entries

vänsterhänt adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Tagalog

1 entries

kaliwete adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Tarifit

1 entries

aẓermaḍ adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Turkish

1 entries

solak adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Ukrainian

1 entries

лівору́кий adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Unami

1 entries

mënànchi adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Welsh

1 entries

llawchwith adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Yiddish

1 entries

געלינקט adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Yoruba

1 entries

ọlọ́wọ́ òsì adj (preferring the left hand over the right)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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Tim writes as if he were left-handed.

Source: tatoeba (39660)

I don't have much in common with my left-handed boyfriend.

Source: tatoeba (258042)

I'm left-handed.

Source: tatoeba (321826)

Paganini dazzled his audience with (among other things) a veritable hailstorm of left-handed pizzicatos.

Source: tatoeba (706975)

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