Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“lefthanded” is a form of

left-handed

/lɛftˈhændɪd/ adjective, noun

Forms lefthanded

  1. adjective Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
  2. adjective Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
  3. adjective Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
  4. adjective Awkward or maladroit.
  5. adjective Insincere or malicious.
  6. adjective (occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path
  7. adjective Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.
  8. noun Left-handed people, taken as a whole.

Synonyms

sinistromanual sinistral southpaw morganatic levorotary levorotatory bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed

Antonyms

right-handed ambidextrous

Etymology

From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.
  2. adjective Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “left-handed”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details