dextral

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: dex=tral

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dextral, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a person) right-handed.
2 of or on the right.
3 Zool. (of a spiral shell) with whorls rising to the right and coiling in an anticlockwise direction.
4 Zool. (of a flat-fish) with the right side uppermost.
--n. a right-handed person.

Derivative

dextrality n. dextrally adv.

Etymology

med.L dextralis f. L dextra right hand

THESAURUS

dextral

clockwise, conservative, dexter, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, off, reactionary, right, right-hand, right-wing, right-wingish, starboard

ROGET THESAURUS

dextral

Dextrality

N dextrality, right, right hand, dexter, offside, starboard, dextral, right-handed, dexter, dextrorsal, dextrorse, ambidextral, ambidextrous, dextro-, dextrad, dextrally.