right hand

1. 1.

   the hand that is on the right side of the body

   “he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left”

   “hit him with quick rights to the body”

   Synonymsright

   Broaderhand

Questions about right hand

What does right hand mean?

right hand means "the hand that is on the right side of the body".

What is another word for right hand?

Close synonyms include right. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is right hand a common word?

right hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.