right-handed

See also: righthanded and right handed

English

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Etymology

From Middle English riȝt honded, equivalent to right +‎ handed.

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɹaɪtˈhændɪd/
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Adjective

right-handed (comparative more right-handed, superlative most right-handed)

  1. Using one's right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's left.
    Coordinate terms: left-handed, ambidextrous
  2. (not comparable) Intended to be worn on, or used by, the right hand.
  3. (not comparable) Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
  4. (physics) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
  5. Of a coordinate system: following the right-hand rule.

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Noun

right-handed pl (plural only)

  1. Right-handed people, taken as a whole.
    • 1992, Antonio E. Puente, Robert J. McCaffrey, Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment, →ISBN, page 147:
      Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.

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