Ambidextrous

Definitions: Ambidextrous

Ambidextrous

Adjective

1. Equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon".

2. Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray.

Date "ambidextrous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	AMBIDEXTROUS, adj. Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Ambidextrous

Synonyms: deceitful (adj), double-dealing (adj), double-faced (adj), double-tongued (adj), duplicitous (adj), two-faced (adj), two-handed (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: left-handed (adj), right-handed (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dextrality	Adjective: dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal, dextrorse; ambidextral, ambidextrous; dextro-.
Skill	Neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-footed; cut out for, fitted for.
Tergiversation	Adjective: changeful; irresolute; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving; coquetting; Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ambidextrous

English words defined with "ambidextrous": Ambidextrously ♦ two-handed. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ambidextrous": Ambidextrous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	As my late husband, Ephraim Levi, used to say, 'If you live hand-to-mouth, you have to be ambidextrous.' (Hello, Dolly!; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Michael Stewart)
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Domain	Title
Books	Ambidextrous (reference) Ambidextrous Mind Book: Creative and Inventive Adventures for the Curriculum (reference) Ambidextrous Universe (reference) The Ambidextrous Historian: Historical Writers and Writing in the American West (reference) The Ambidextrous Universe (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Ambidextrous [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	Ambidextrous.Credit: Library of Congress.		Our ambidextrous diplomat.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Ambidextrous.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Ambidextrous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ambidextrous" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11	106,044

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ambidextrous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që përdor dy duart njëlloj, mashtrues (artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued). (various references)

Arabic		‏قادر (able, fit), ‏بارع إلى حد إثتثنائي. (various references)

Bulgarian		измамник (bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler), двуличник (dissembler, double-dealer), двуличен (double, double dealing, double faced, double-minded, double-tongued, hypocritical, intriguing, janus-faced, two faced). (various references)

Czech		obouruký (ambidexter), obojetný. (various references)

French		ambidextre (ambidexter). (various references)

German		beidhändig (two-handed). (various references)

Greek		αμφιδέξιοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		kétkezes (double-handed, two-handed). (various references)

Italian		ambidestro (ambidexter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		両手利 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		りょうてきき. (various references)

Manx		jesh-laueagh (adept, adroit, ambidexterous, deft, dexterous, handy, slick), co-yesh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ambidextrousay

Portuguese		ambidestro (two-handed). (various references)

Romanian		ambidextru (ambidexter). (various references)

Russian		владеющий двумя руками, двуличный (double faced, duplicious, two faced, two-faced, two-tongued). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sposoban da upotrebljava obe ruke, dvoličan (double faced, double-minded). (various references)

Spanish		ambidextro (ambidexter). (various references)

Swedish		ambidexter, opålitlig (faithless, unreliable, untrustworthy), mycket skicklig, lika skicklig med båda händerna. (various references)

Turkish		iki yüzlü (ambidexter, bilateral, disingenuous, dissembler, double dealing, double faced, double-dealer, double-minded, double-tongued, false, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, left handed, pharisaic, pharisaical, shammer, slimy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, two sided), iki elini de kullanabilen, elinden her iş gelen, çok yönlü (all purpose, all round, sophisticated, versatile, well-rounded). (various references)

Ukranian		що однаково володі�" обома руками, лукавий (arch, canny, crafty, hollow-hearted, wicked, wily), двосторонній (bilateral, bipartite, reversible, two sided, two way), дволичний (ambidexter, double faced, two faced, twofold), двобічний (double faced, two sided). (various references)

Vietnamese		người thuận cả hai tay người lá mặt lá trái (ambidexter, ambidexterous), người hai mang (ambidexter, ambidexterous), người ăn ở hai lòng (ambidexter, ambidexterous). (various references)

Welsh		deheuig a+'i ddwy law. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "ambidextrous": ambidextrously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ambidextrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ambedextrous, ambidestrous, ambidexetrous, ambidexterous, ambidextorus, ambidextrious, ambidextroux, ambitextrous, ambititious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ambidextrous" (pronounced a'mbude"kstrus)
8	-d e" k s t r u s	dextrous.
5	-s t r u s	disastrous, estrous, estrus, headmistress, lustrous, mistress, monstrous, seamstress.
4	-t r u s	actress, buttress, citrus, fortress, huntress, idolatrous, mattress, nitrous, temptress, waitress.
3	-r u s	ambassadress, arris, Brontosaurus, chorus, Cirrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, embarrass, ferrous, fibrous, hantavirus, heiress, hubris, hydrous, Iris, ludicrous, Madras, maquiladoras, Morris, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, porous, puris, retrovirus, sorus, stegosaurus, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, virus, walrus, wondrous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-m-o-r-s-t-u-x"
	-2 letters: admixtures.
	-3 letters: admixture, amberoids, amortised, drumbeats, exordiums, mediators, misrouted, outdreams, outraised, subeditor, tamboured.
	-4 letters: aerobium, amberoid, ambroids, amortise, asteroid, atomised, atomiser, auditors, barmiest, bauxites, bermudas, biramose, biramous, bordeaux, broadest, bromated, bromates, bromides, buxomest, daubiest, daubries, deorbits, dextrous, diestrum, dimerous, doubters, drumbeat, exordium, extrados, exurbias, imbruted, imbrutes, matrixes, mediator, misdoubt, misrated, misroute, mixtures, moisture.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-m-o-r-s-t-u-x"
	+2 letters: ambidextrously.
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