| left-handed | | |
| adj. | 1. left-handed | using or intended for the left hand.; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors" |
| ~ sinistral | of or on the left.; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost" |
| ~ left-hand, left | intended for the left hand.; "I rarely lose a left-hand glove" |
| ~ sinistral | preferring to use left foot or hand or eye.; "sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye" |
| ~ left | being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north.; "my left hand"; "left center field"; "the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream" |
| adj. | 2. left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal.; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" |
| ~ illegitimate | of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful. |
| adj. | 3. left-handed, morganatic | (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. |
| ~ legitimate | of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful. |
| adj. | 4. left-handed, levorotary, levorotatory | rotating to the left. |
| ~ anticlockwise, contraclockwise, counterclockwise | in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock. |
| adj. | 5. left-handed | ironically ambiguous.; "a left-handed compliment" |
| ~ ambiguous | having more than one possible meaning.; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy" |
| adj. | 6. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed | 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" |
| ~ maladroit | not adroit.; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda" |
| leftist | | |
| n. (person) | 1. collectivist, left-winger, leftist | a person who belongs to the political left. |
| ~ pinko, pink | a person with mildly leftist political views. |
| ~ socialist | a political advocate of socialism. |
| adj. | 2. left-of-center, left-wing, leftist | believing in or supporting tenets of the political left. |
| ~ left | of or belonging to the political or intellectual left. |
| lefty | | |
| n. (person) | 1. left-hander, lefty, southpaw | a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right.; "their pitcher was a southpaw" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| n. (person) | 2. left hander, left-handed pitcher, left-hander, lefthander, lefty, southpaw | a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand. |
| ~ hurler, pitcher, twirler | (baseball) the person who does the pitching.; "our pitcher has a sore arm" |
| southpaw | | |
| non | | |
| adv. | 1. non, not | negation of a word or group of words.; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" |
| none | | |
| n. (time) | 1. none | a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise. |
| ~ time of day, hour | clock time.; "the hour is getting late" |
| n. (act) | 2. none | a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier. |
| ~ divine service, religious service, service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules.; "the Sunday service" |
| adj. | 3. none | not any.; "thou shalt have none other gods before me" |
| ~ no | quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of.; "we have no bananas"; "no eggs left and no money to buy any"; "have you no decency?"; "did it with no help"; "I'll get you there in no time" |
| adv. | 4. none | not at all or in no way.; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none too clear" |
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