Word info Synonyms Antonyms

right-hand

Speech parts

1. right-hand - Noun

2. right-hand - Adjective

3. right-hand - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.

Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

right hand

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Ambrose Bierce

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. Howard Staunton

Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, "It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women." Ben Carson

The more we emphasize teaching a merely Right-Hand map of systems theory or a Gaia Web of Life, instead of equally emphasizing the importance of interior development from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric, then the more we are contributing to Gaia's demise. Ken Wilber

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two. Libba Bray

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate. Emeril Lagasse

Close letter words and terms