Someone who is left-handed uses their left hand rather than their right hand for activities such as writing and sports and for picking things up.
I noticed she was left-handed.
There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.
Left-handed is also an adverb.
My father thought that I'd be at a disadvantage if I wrote left-handed.
More Synonyms of left-handed
left-handed in British English
adjective
1.
using the left hand with greater ease than the right
2.
performed with the left hand
3.
designed or adapted for use by the left hand
4.
worn on the left hand
5.
awkward or clumsy
6.
ironically ambiguous
a left-handed compliment
7.
turning from right to left; anticlockwise
8. law another term for morganatic
adverb
9.
with the left hand
Derived forms
left-handedly (ˌleft-ˈhandedly)
adverb
left-handedness (ˌleft-ˈhandedness)
noun
left-handed in American English
(ˈlɛftˈhændɪd)
adjective
1.
using the left hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the right
2.
done with the left hand
3.
clumsy; awkward
4.
designating an insincere or ambiguous compliment; backhanded (sense 2)
5.
morganatic
from the custom of having the groom give his left hand to the bride at such a wedding
6.
made for use with the left hand or by left-handed people
7.
turning from right to left; worked by counterclockwise motion
8.
designating one who swings a bat, club, etc. rightward
9.
having an asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that is conventionally viewed as having certain components on the left side: said of an isomer that is the mirror image of one that is right-handed
adverb
10.
with the left hand
to write left-handed
11.
in such a way that the bat, club, etc. swings rightward
Derived forms
left-handedly (ˈleft-ˈhandedly)
adverb
left-handedness (ˈleft-ˈhandedness)
noun
left-hander (ˈleft-ˌhander)
noun
Examples of 'left-handed' in a sentence
left-handed
Switching to a left-handed track should help.
The Sun (2016)
Who was the best left-handed batsman you saw?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We can see from all this that left-handed people are different to you and me.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But the origin of why some people are left-handed is still a mystery.
The Sun (2014)
A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A left-handed opening batsman who likes to play off the back foot.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Right-handed people went to the left so they could use their right hand; left-handed people went to the right.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Hurdle course is 1m left-handed.
The Sun (2011)
In other languages
left-handed
British English: left-handed /ˌlɛftˈhændɪd/ ADJECTIVE
Someone who is left-handed finds it easier to use their left hand rather than their right hand for activities such as writing and throwing a ball.
...a store that sells everything for left-handed people.