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/ˈdɛks.tə/ · adjective
(archaic outside heraldry) Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.).
my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:
Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?"
Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.
The shield was divided into five, with two coats of arms on the dexter side (the right-hand side from the point of view of the bearer of the shield)—London and Southampton—and three on the sinister side—Salisbury, Winchester and Portsmouth.
[…] the dexter lion being gorged […]
Subtracting the second from the first, the third from the second and the first from the third successively, we obtain, after transposition, the following identities: — [several equations] But, the sinisters being exact differentials, the dexters are so. Consequently [...]
On the dexter of the court is a long hall with an arched ceiling and a door, leading to a small oblong shrine with a vaulted ceiling.
Use dexter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dexter means (archaic outside heraldry) Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.).
Common synonyms include dextral.
Possible antonyms include sinister.
my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:
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