ambidextrous
English
Etymology
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From ambi- + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dexter (“right”) + -ous (as if both hands are like the right hand, which is the stronger hand in most people).
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ambidextrous (comparative more ambidextrous, superlative most ambidextrous)
- Having equal ability in both hands; in particular, able to write equally well with both hands.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
- Equally usable by left-handed and right-handed people (as a tool or instrument).
- (archaic) Practising or siding with both parties.
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- All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
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- (humorous) Of a person, bisexual.
- Exceptionally skillful; adept in more than one medium, genre, style, etc.
- Michelangelo was a very ambidextrous artist, producing sculptures and frescoes with equal ability.
- 1884, The British Trade Journal and Export World, page 558
- For years, by every possible device, we have been raising the prices of our agricultural products against the foreign buyers […] by every device known to the ambidextrous tradesman and financier. The result is that we have raised up other and unexpected competitors in the markets of the world.
- 1998, Alan Spiegel, James Agee and the Legend of Himself: A Critical Study, University of Missouri Press (→ISBN), page 12
- In a footnote, these admirers will often bemoan Agee as a Renaissance or at least ambidextrous artist in an age of specialization, a vast and turbulent ocean syphoned off through a garden hose; not just a novelist manque but also a frustrated […]
- 2014, Pamela Lillian Valemont, Beauty Queen Murder - Allison Baden-Clay, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 49
- He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent yachting or canoeing or with his brothers. By 1903, Baden-Powell's military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, […]
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having equal ability in both hands
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handedness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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