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Princeton's WordNet

  1. right-handedadjective

    using or intended for the right hand

    "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors"

  2. dextrorotary, dextrorotatory, right-handedadjective

    rotating to the right

Wiktionary

  1. right-handedadjective

    Of one who uses their right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than their left.

  2. right-handedadjective

    Intended to be worn on, or used by the right hand.

ChatGPT

  1. right-handed

    Right-handed refers to the characteristic of a person in which the right hand is more dominant, skilled or often used than the left hand. This dominance often affects various physical activities such as writing, eating, throwing, etc. For inanimate objects or structures, right-handed might denote a specific orientation or direction of symmetry or rotation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Right-handedadjective

    using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left

  2. Right-handedadjective

    having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction

  3. Right-handedadjective

    having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of right-handed in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of right-handed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of right-handed in a Sentence

  1. Robert Bates:

    I shoot long guns left handed and handguns right handed.

  2. Robbie Grossman:

    He’s still Miguel Cabrera. In my eyes, he’s one of the greatest right-handed hitters of all time, i watch him every day just to see if I can get something from him.

  3. Andy Murray:

    I had the( shoulder) problem in Abu Dhabi couple of days ago and haven't had much time to serve after that. We flew straight from there and arrived yesterday, it doesn't really make sense for a right-handed player to have a problem with their left arm. So I am not sure exactly what it was and I had a scan in Abu Dhabi and that was all clear.

  4. Jerry Coleman:

    Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

  5. Michael Quatch:

    In the vast majority of people who are right-handed, almost all have the language on the left side of the brain, in very, very young kids … they don’t tend to pick a side [ of the brain ] for their language yet.


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