anticlockwise vs left-handed

anticlockwise

adj
  • in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move. 

adv
  • In an anticlockwise fashion. 

left-handed

adj
  • Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. 

  • Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule. 

  • Awkward or maladroit. 

  • Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. 

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

  • Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo. 

  • Insincere or malicious. 

noun
  • Left-handed people, taken as a whole. 

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