right-handed
having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
adapted to or performed by the right hand: a right-handed lever; right-handed penmanship.
Machinery.
rotating clockwise.
noting a helical, or spiral, member, as a gear tooth or screw thread, that twists clockwise as it recedes from an observer.
Building Trades. right-hand (def. 5).
in a right-handed manner or fashion: The door opens right-handed.
with the right hand: She writes right-handed.
toward the right hand or in a clockwise direction: The strands of the rope are laid right-handed.
Origin of right-handed
1Other words from right-handed
- right-hand·ed·ness, noun
Words Nearby right-handed
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How to use right-handed in a sentence
Titanic, shooting right-handed, lost a close golf match to an amateur who played in the 90s.
Apparently, a fair number of left-handed people die each year from using right-handed products incorrectly.
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The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonHe excelled all competitors in school and was generally rated the best right-handed pitcher in the metropolitan district.
The Boy Grew Older | Heywood BrounOf course there might be left-handed piano players, but certainly all the fiddlers and all the conductors are right-handed.
The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun
You hold your own pipe to the lamp, and see how naturally you, being right-handed, hold the left side to the flame.
Godfrey leapt to his feet, and springing forward struck the bully a right-handed blow straight from the shoulder.
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British Dictionary definitions for right-handed
using the right hand with greater skill or ease than the left
performed with the right hand: right-handed writing
made for use by the right hand
worn on the right hand
turning from left to right; clockwise
Derived forms of right-handed
- right-handedly, adverb
- right-handedness, noun
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