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ambidextrous
[ am-bi-dek-struhs ]
adjective
- able to use both hands equally well:
an ambidextrous surgeon.
- unusually skillful; facile:
an ambidextrous painter, familiar with all media.
- double-dealing; deceitful.
- Slang. bisexual.
ambidextrous
/ ˌæmbɪˈdɛkstrəs; ˌæmbɪdɛkˈstɛrɪtɪ /
adjective
- equally expert with each hand
- informal.highly skilled or adept
- underhanded; deceitful
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Derived Forms
- ˌambiˈdextrously, adverb
- ambidexterity, noun
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Other Words From
- ambi·dextrous·ly adverb
- ambi·dextrous·ness noun
- pseudo·ambi·dextrous adjective
- pseudo·ambi·dextrous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ambidextrous1
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Example Sentences
Of course, the ambidextrous ironies of the current situation work both ways.
He worked until those clever ambidextrous hands lost the cunning to work out the forms his active brain could still conceive.
He is painting at a small easel and working in quite a wonderful manner, for he is ambidextrous.
Man was once, in his childhood on earth, what Charles Reade wanted him again to be in his maturer centuries, ambidextrous.
Because it has been found that children trained on Ambidextrous lines develop neurotic symptoms.
It is seldom that one in this world sees his way to being so adroitly ambidextrous.
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