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right-handed definition

right·-handed (-handid)

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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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