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right-handed

Syllabification: (right-hand·ed)
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Definition of right-handed

adjective

  • 1(of a person) using the right hand more naturally than the left:the slant of the stab wounds suggested that the assailant was right-handed
  • (of a tool or item of equipment) made to be used with the right hand or by right-handed people:a right-handed guitar
  • made or done with the right hand, or in a manner natural to right-handed people:right-handed batting
  • 2going toward or turning to the right, in particular.
  • (of a screw) advanced by turning clockwise.
  • Biology (of a spiral shell or helix) dextral.
  • (of a racecourse) turning clockwise.

adverb

  • with the right hand, or in a manner natural to right-handed people:Jackson bats right-handed

Derivatives

right-handedly

adverb

right-handedness

noun

right-handed in other Oxford dictionaries

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