left-handed

Adjective

• lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
  • a bumbling mechanic
    
  • a bungling performance
    
  • ham-handed governmental interference
    
  • could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse
    

• ironically ambiguous
  • a left-handed compliment
    

• rotating to the left

• (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

• (of marriages) illicit or informal
  • in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent
    

• using or intended for the left hand
  • left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs
    
  • left-handed scissors
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bumbling , bungling , butterfingered , ham-fisted , ham-handed , handless , heavy-handed , levorotary , levorotatory , morganatic
• Antonyms: 
  ambidextrous , two-handed , right-handed