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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Able to use both hands with equal facility.
  2. adj. Unusually skillful; adroit.
  3. adj. Deceptive or hypocritical.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease and dexterity; hence, skilful; facile.
  2. Practising or siding with both parties; double-dealing; deceitful.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having equal ability in both hands; in particular, able to write equally well with both hands.
  2. adj. Practising or siding with both parties.
  3. adj. humorous Of a person, bisexual.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
  2. adj. Practicing or siding with both parties.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. equally skillful with each hand
  2. adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

Etymologies

  1. ambi- + Latin dexter ("right") + -ous (as if both hands are like the right hand, which is the stronger hand in most people). (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of archaic ambidexter, from Middle English, double dealer, from Medieval Latin : Latin ambi-, on both sides; see ambi- + Latin dexter, right-handed. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘ambidextrous’

  1. equipoised
  1. dishonorable
  1. dishonest

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. ambilevous
  1. ambisinistrous

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. safety-decocking
  2. forend
  3. variable-speed
  1. extendable
  2. in-built
  3. quick-release
  1. ambivalent
  2. thought-of
  3. nature
  1. colour-blind
  2. aft-motion
  3. hand-operated
  1. rambunctious
  2. 5-speed
  3. ever-varying
  1. two-electron
  2. retractor
  3. overactive
  1. knuckleball

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. dextrous

reverse dictionary (6)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. ambilevous
  1. two-handed
  1. ambidexterity
  1. ambidextrously
  1. ambidextrousness
  1. ambidexter

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  • oroboros Ambidextrous is ambidextrous. The first half of the word is from the left half of the alphabet; the second half from the right half. Dec 31, 2009

  • sonofgroucho Quite. Jan 25, 2008

  • asativum Doesn't it always? Jan 25, 2008

  • seanahan Credit belongs to Yogi Berra, I believe. Jan 25, 2008

  • gangerh :-) Jan 24, 2008

  • sonofgroucho I'd give both arms to be ambidextrous. Jan 24, 2008

  • gangerh (ox) I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Jan 24, 2008

  • slumry Fraid so. Well, I don't but I know someone who does. Jun 14, 2007

  • seanahan So you use it to mean ambivalent? Jun 14, 2007

  • slumry Someone uses this to mean flexible, as in "Should we pain the walls orange or purple?"

    "I'm ambidextrous"

    It kind of grows on a person. . . Jun 14, 2007

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