left-handed

See also: lefthanded

English

left-handed (not comparable)

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.
Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
Awkward or maladroit.
Insincere or malicious.
- Landor
  The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive.
Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.

left-handed pl (plural only)

Left-handed people, taken as a whole.
- 1992, Antonio E. Puente; ‎Robert J. McCaffrey, Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment, →ISBN, page 147:
  Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.

preferring the left hand over the right

Arabic: أَيْسَر‎ (ʾaysar), أَعْسَر‎ (ʾaʿsar)
Armenian: ձախլիկ (hy) (jaxlik)
Azerbaijani: solaxay (az)
Bashkir: һулаҡай (hulaqay)
Basque: ezkerti (eu)
Catalan: esquerrà (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 左利手 (zuǒlìshǒu), 左撇子 (zh) (zuǒpiězi)
Danish: kejthåndet (da), venstrehåndet (da)
Dutch: linkshandig (nl)
Faroese: lámur m (noun)
Finnish: vasenkätinen (fi)
French: gaucher (fr)
Galician: zurdo, manicho m, coxeno m, curdo m, zurdán m, xergo m, maniscoto m, cochaino m
German: linkshändig
Greek: αριστερόχειρας (el) (aristerócheiras)
Hebrew: שמאלי‎ (he) (smalí)
Hungarian: balkezes (hu)
Indonesian: kidal (id)