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ambidextrous

[ am-bi-dek-struhs ]

adjective

  1. able to use both hands equally well:

    an ambidextrous surgeon.

  2. unusually skillful; facile:

    an ambidextrous painter, familiar with all media.

  3. double-dealing; deceitful.
  4. Slang. bisexual.


ambidextrous

/ ˌæmbɪˈdɛkstrəs; ˌæmbɪdɛkˈstɛrɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. equally expert with each hand
  2. informal.
    highly skilled or adept
  3. underhanded; deceitful
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌambiˈdextrously, adverb
  • ambidexterity, noun
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Other Words From

  • ambi·dextrous·ly adverb
  • ambi·dextrous·ness noun
  • pseudo·ambi·dextrous adjective
  • pseudo·ambi·dextrous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambidextrous1

First recorded in 1640–50; ambidext(e)r + -ous
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Example Sentences

Most mice are created for right-handed players, but there are a number of excellent mice out there that have created ambidextrous programmable options like the Glorious Model O or Mira-M from HK Gaming.

It also accommodates both right- and left-handed artists, with dials and shortcut keys on both sides of the tablet for ambidextrous access.

Many esports mice, which comprise the majority of this list, describe themselves as “ambidextrous” mice, which are uniformly round and aren’t molded to fit specific hand shapes.

Most of the time, they are not actually ambidextrous, because they lack secondary thumb buttons for left-handed players.

It still embraces a truly ambidextrous design and allows players to switch sensor sensitivity on the fly.

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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