right-handed

See also: righthanded and right handed

English

Alternative forms

• righthanded

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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.

Translations

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

• Arabic: أَيْمَن (ar) (ʔayman)

  Gulf Arabic: يمناوي m (yimnāwi)

• Armenian: աջլիկ (hy) (aǰlik)
• Azerbaijani: onaxay, sağanay
• Basque: eskuinti (eu), eskumati (eu)
• Catalan: dretà (ca), dreter m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 右利手 (yòulìshǒu), 右撇子 (zh) (yòupiězi)

• Czech: pravoruký, pravácký
• Danish: højrehåndet
• Dutch: rechtshandig (nl)
• Esperanto: dekstramana (eo)
• Faroese: høgrhentur
• Finnish: oikeakätinen (fi)
• French: droitier (fr)
• German: rechtshändig
• Greek: δεξιόχειρας (el) (dexiócheiras)
• Hebrew: ימני (yemaní)
• Hindi: दाएँ हत्था m (dāẽ hatthā)
• Hungarian: jobbkezes (hu)
• Icelandic: rétthentur
• Indonesian: bukan kidal
• Irish: deasach
• Italian: destrimano (it)
• Japanese: 右利き (ja) (migikiki)
• Korean: 오른손잡이 (oreunsonjabi)
• Latvian: labrocis
• Lithuanian: dešiniarankis
• Macedonian: деснорак (desnorak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høyrehendt

  Nynorsk: høgrehendt

• Polish: praworęczny (pl), praworęki
• Portuguese: destro (pt) m
• Romanian: dreptaci (ro) m
• Russian: правору́кий (ru) (pravorúkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: deas-làmhach
• Slovak: pravoruký
• Spanish: diestro (es), dextrómano (psychology, Spain)
• Swedish: högerhänt (sv)
• Tarifit: afusi m
• Welsh: llawddehau, llawdde

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.

Antonyms

• left-handed
• lefthanded

Derived terms

• right-handedly
• right-handedness
• right-handed neutrino
• right-handed path
• rightie
• righty

See also

• chirality