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right-handed Definition

right·-handed (-han′did)

adjective

  1. using the right hand more skillfully than, and in preference to, the left
  2. done with the right hand
  3. made for use with the right hand
  4. designating one who swings a bat, club, etc. leftward
  5. turning left to right; worked by clockwise motion
  6. dextral (sense )
  7. having an asymmetrical molecular or crystal structure that is conventionally viewed as having certain components on the right side: said of an isomer that is the mirror image of a one that is left-handed

adverb

  1. with the right hand to throw right-handed
  2. in such a way that the bat, club, etc. swings leftward to bat right-handed

right-handed Related Forms

right′·-hand′edly adverb right′·-hand′edness noun right′·-hand′er noun

right-handed Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • always: The two cross-linked helices are always right-handed, twisting in the same direction as a normal screw.
  • mostly: In addition, and perhaps more surprisingly, Dr. Westergaard has shown that in making tools capuchin monkeys are mostly right-handed.
  • actually: I'm actually right-handed but I do some things with the left.
  • all: Until I got my own bowling ball, I had to use the ones provided at the bowling alley, which were all right-handed.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • play: Many children studying guitar were confronted with difficulties through their handedness, with 49 % of left-handers being encouraged to play the guitar right-handed.
  • do: Over the years, I learned to do many things right-handed simply because I couldn't get equipment to work correctly.

Modifies a noun

  • batsman: A right-handed batsman, he played his club cricket for Broughton, Manchester.
  • scissors: Struggling with buttons and right-handed scissors, or constantly smudging the ink on my homework - well, that can be pretty annoying.
  • helix: Each strand is a left-handed helix twisted on itself, but the three strands are twisted into a larger right-handed triple helix.
  • track: He revealed the hurdler with six wins from seven starts when faced with distances below three miles, a right-handed track and fast ground.
  • player: A Mandolin is normally rested in the lap and for a right-handed player, the fretboard and tuner point out to the left.
  • person: Probably by a right-handed person from behind with the victim kneeling at the time of the attack.

Used with adjective complement

  • play: At age 13, Weir wrote to Jack Nicklaus asking whether he should switch to playing right-handed.
  • write: The School tired to make me write right-handed for years.
  • knit: I knit right-handed, but find it very awkward.
  • bear: Born right-handed, he lost his arm in a childhood accident when he fell off the running board of a truck.