Definition of ambidextrous in English:

ambidextrous

adjectiveˌambɪˈdɛkstrəsˌæmbiˈdɛkst(ə)rəs

1Able to use the right and left hands equally well.
（人）两手都善用的
few of us are naturally ambidextrous
我们中间很少人天生是两手同样灵巧的。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I'll have you know I'm ambidextrous,’ Dee sniffed.
- He carved only with his right hand and was surprised to learn that some carvers were ambidextrous.
- Australia's John Buchanan would like ambidextrous players.
- ‘We're not all ambidextrous,’ Vaughn said, catching his breath.
- It's just different, in the way that right-handed people are different from, but not better than, left-handed or ambidextrous people.
- Witness the ambidextrous chimpanzee: In captivity, it typically picks branches up with its left hand but digs peanut butter out of a tube with its right.
- However, with practice, a child can become competent on both sides and where football is concerned my feeling is that if a child is taught from a very early age to use both feet, they can become ambidextrous.
- I'm trying to become ambidextrous, but it isn't really working.
- My father, who's ambidextrous, makes it look easy.
- Let me be clear here that I am not really concerned with whether she was left- or right-handed, or even ambidextrous.
- Linden was ambidextrous, capable of using both her hands with equal ability - to write, throw, anything.
- Other left-handers I know are reasonably ambidextrous, but sadly not many of us are capable of doing everything with both hands.
- Although I'm ambidextrous, there are few things I do equally well with either hand.
- He throws and bats left-handed, but he's ambidextrous.
- He became ambidextrous, using his left hand instead.
- I'm slightly ambidextrous (mostly right-handed including writing but I throw/bowl/chuck left-handed).
- The Nottingham star remarked that his ambidextrous opponent was probably not as good playing with his left hand as his right.
- The chance element may also explain why some people are ambidextrous rather than clearly right or left-handed.
- This does not necessarily mean that you are ambidextrous.
- Over two-thirds of the parents indicated that at least one, if not both, parents are left-handed or ambidextrous.
1. 1.1 (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease.
  （工具）左右手均宜使用的
  an ambidextrous tile gauge
  Example sentencesExamples
  The back of it sports ambidextrous safety levers.
  In addition to the hammer assembly, the kit includes the mainspring, the ambidextrous safety assembly, and an extra power plunger spring.
  The ambidextrous safety levers were just the right size: big enough to be fast and positive to release, small enough that they weren't accidentally released in routine carry.
  It's an ambidextrous design for the most part, but it's still better suited for right handers.
  If your customer is left-handed, then an ambidextrous safety add-on is in order - installed by someone competent.
  The ten round magazine is released with an ambidextrous lever mounted on the bottom of the trigger guard.
  A gentle nudge on the ambidextrous blade stud, and the knife's special design quickly opens the blade.
  The design of the stock is highly ergonomic and totally ambidextrous, so it doesn't take long at all to become intimately familiar with the gun.
  The new wire clip is ambidextrous and carries the knife tip down.
  The light is activated with an ambidextrous pressure switch just under the trigger guard, wrapped around the front area of the grips.

Derivatives

ambidexterity

nounˌambɪdɛkˈstɛrɪtiˌæmbiˌdɛksˈtɛrədi

mass noun

Ability to use the right and left hands equally well; the quality of being ambidextrous.
he credits his ambidexterity to all the broken arms he suffered as a child
Example sentencesExamples
- The sport promotes hand-eye concentration, ambidexterity, quickness and concentration.
- Tendulkar's ambidexterity is interesting; he writes left-handed and at meals handles a spoon or fork with his left.
- Without that ambidexterity, the player is much easier to defend.

ambidextrously

adverbambɪˈdɛkstrəsliˌæmbiˈdɛkst(ə)rəsli

Many musical instruments are played ambidextrously.
Example sentencesExamples
- It worked perfectly well, but there are those of us who like to be able to shoot ambidextrously in an emergency without impediment.
- The scientists noted those less used to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad and younger people used both thumbs ambidextrously.

ambidextrousness

nounambɪˈdɛkstrəsnəs

Demonstrating his family's reputation for ambidextrousness, he transferred the sword to his left hand.
Example sentencesExamples
- Only once have I tried to exploit my ambidextrousness for what might be called personal gain.
- Several studies have noted a higher rate of left-handedness in schizophrenic people although some scientists think this is due to ambidextrousness rather than genuine left-handedness.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin ambidexter (from Latin ambi- 'on both sides' + dexter 'right-handed') + -ous.

As anyone left-handed knows, we live in a right-handed world. The bias towards right-handedness is present in the language too. While the positive word dexterous or ‘skilful, good with the hands’ comes from the Latin for ‘right-handed’, the rather more negative sinister comes from the Latin for ‘left-handed’. And if you are ambidextrous, it is as though you have got two right hands: the word is from Latin ambi ‘both, on both sides’ and dexter ‘right, right-handed’. At one time ambidextrous could also be used to mean ‘double-dealing, trying to please both sides’, as in ‘a little, dirty, pimping, pettifogging, ambidextrous fellow’ (Laurence Sterne, 1768).

Definition of ambidextrous in US English:

ambidextrous

adjectiveˌæmbiˈdɛkst(ə)rəsˌambēˈdekst(ə)rəs

1(of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.
（人）两手都善用的
few of us are naturally ambidextrous
我们中间很少人天生是两手同样灵巧的。
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm slightly ambidextrous (mostly right-handed including writing but I throw/bowl/chuck left-handed).
- Linden was ambidextrous, capable of using both her hands with equal ability - to write, throw, anything.
- ‘I'll have you know I'm ambidextrous,’ Dee sniffed.
- However, with practice, a child can become competent on both sides and where football is concerned my feeling is that if a child is taught from a very early age to use both feet, they can become ambidextrous.
- It's just different, in the way that right-handed people are different from, but not better than, left-handed or ambidextrous people.
- Over two-thirds of the parents indicated that at least one, if not both, parents are left-handed or ambidextrous.
- Other left-handers I know are reasonably ambidextrous, but sadly not many of us are capable of doing everything with both hands.
- Australia's John Buchanan would like ambidextrous players.
- I'm trying to become ambidextrous, but it isn't really working.
- He throws and bats left-handed, but he's ambidextrous.
- He carved only with his right hand and was surprised to learn that some carvers were ambidextrous.
- Let me be clear here that I am not really concerned with whether she was left- or right-handed, or even ambidextrous.
- This does not necessarily mean that you are ambidextrous.
- Although I'm ambidextrous, there are few things I do equally well with either hand.
- Witness the ambidextrous chimpanzee: In captivity, it typically picks branches up with its left hand but digs peanut butter out of a tube with its right.
- My father, who's ambidextrous, makes it look easy.
- He became ambidextrous, using his left hand instead.
- The chance element may also explain why some people are ambidextrous rather than clearly right or left-handed.
- The Nottingham star remarked that his ambidextrous opponent was probably not as good playing with his left hand as his right.
- ‘We're not all ambidextrous,’ Vaughn said, catching his breath.
1. 1.1 (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease.
  （工具）左右手均宜使用的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In addition to the hammer assembly, the kit includes the mainspring, the ambidextrous safety assembly, and an extra power plunger spring.
  The back of it sports ambidextrous safety levers.
  A gentle nudge on the ambidextrous blade stud, and the knife's special design quickly opens the blade.
  If your customer is left-handed, then an ambidextrous safety add-on is in order - installed by someone competent.
  The light is activated with an ambidextrous pressure switch just under the trigger guard, wrapped around the front area of the grips.
  The ten round magazine is released with an ambidextrous lever mounted on the bottom of the trigger guard.
  It's an ambidextrous design for the most part, but it's still better suited for right handers.
  The new wire clip is ambidextrous and carries the knife tip down.
  The ambidextrous safety levers were just the right size: big enough to be fast and positive to release, small enough that they weren't accidentally released in routine carry.
  The design of the stock is highly ergonomic and totally ambidextrous, so it doesn't take long at all to become intimately familiar with the gun.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin ambidexter (from Latin ambi- ‘on both sides’ + dexter ‘right-handed’) + -ous.

单词	ambidextrous
释义	Definition of ambidextrous in English: ambidextrous adjectiveˌambɪˈdɛkstrəsˌæmbiˈdɛkst(ə)rəs 1Able to use the right and left hands equally well. （人）两手都善用的 few of us are naturally ambidextrous 我们中间很少人天生是两手同样灵巧的。 Example sentencesExamples ‘I'll have you know I'm ambidextrous,’ Dee sniffed. He carved only with his right hand and was surprised to learn that some carvers were ambidextrous. Australia's John Buchanan would like ambidextrous players. ‘We're not all ambidextrous,’ Vaughn said, catching his breath. It's just different, in the way that right-handed people are different from, but not better than, left-handed or ambidextrous people. Witness the ambidextrous chimpanzee: In captivity, it typically picks branches up with its left hand but digs peanut butter out of a tube with its right. However, with practice, a child can become competent on both sides and where football is concerned my feeling is that if a child is taught from a very early age to use both feet, they can become ambidextrous. I'm trying to become ambidextrous, but it isn't really working. My father, who's ambidextrous, makes it look easy. Let me be clear here that I am not really concerned with whether she was left- or right-handed, or even ambidextrous. Linden was ambidextrous, capable of using both her hands with equal ability - to write, throw, anything. Other left-handers I know are reasonably ambidextrous, but sadly not many of us are capable of doing everything with both hands. Although I'm ambidextrous, there are few things I do equally well with either hand. He throws and bats left-handed, but he's ambidextrous. He became ambidextrous, using his left hand instead. I'm slightly ambidextrous (mostly right-handed including writing but I throw/bowl/chuck left-handed). The Nottingham star remarked that his ambidextrous opponent was probably not as good playing with his left hand as his right. The chance element may also explain why some people are ambidextrous rather than clearly right or left-handed. This does not necessarily mean that you are ambidextrous. Over two-thirds of the parents indicated that at least one, if not both, parents are left-handed or ambidextrous. 1.1 (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease. （工具）左右手均宜使用的 an ambidextrous tile gauge Example sentencesExamples The back of it sports ambidextrous safety levers. In addition to the hammer assembly, the kit includes the mainspring, the ambidextrous safety assembly, and an extra power plunger spring. The ambidextrous safety levers were just the right size: big enough to be fast and positive to release, small enough that they weren't accidentally released in routine carry. It's an ambidextrous design for the most part, but it's still better suited for right handers. If your customer is left-handed, then an ambidextrous safety add-on is in order - installed by someone competent. The ten round magazine is released with an ambidextrous lever mounted on the bottom of the trigger guard. A gentle nudge on the ambidextrous blade stud, and the knife's special design quickly opens the blade. The design of the stock is highly ergonomic and totally ambidextrous, so it doesn't take long at all to become intimately familiar with the gun. The new wire clip is ambidextrous and carries the knife tip down. The light is activated with an ambidextrous pressure switch just under the trigger guard, wrapped around the front area of the grips. Derivatives ambidexterity nounˌambɪdɛkˈstɛrɪtiˌæmbiˌdɛksˈtɛrədi mass noun Ability to use the right and left hands equally well; the quality of being ambidextrous. he credits his ambidexterity to all the broken arms he suffered as a child Example sentencesExamples The sport promotes hand-eye concentration, ambidexterity, quickness and concentration. Tendulkar's ambidexterity is interesting; he writes left-handed and at meals handles a spoon or fork with his left. Without that ambidexterity, the player is much easier to defend. ambidextrously adverbambɪˈdɛkstrəsliˌæmbiˈdɛkst(ə)rəsli Many musical instruments are played ambidextrously. Example sentencesExamples It worked perfectly well, but there are those of us who like to be able to shoot ambidextrously in an emergency without impediment. The scientists noted those less used to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad and younger people used both thumbs ambidextrously. ambidextrousness nounambɪˈdɛkstrəsnəs Demonstrating his family's reputation for ambidextrousness, he transferred the sword to his left hand. Example sentencesExamples Only once have I tried to exploit my ambidextrousness for what might be called personal gain. Several studies have noted a higher rate of left-handedness in schizophrenic people although some scientists think this is due to ambidextrousness rather than genuine left-handedness. Origin Mid 17th century: from late Latin ambidexter (from Latin ambi- 'on both sides' + dexter 'right-handed') + -ous. As anyone left-handed knows, we live in a right-handed world. The bias towards right-handedness is present in the language too. While the positive word dexterous or ‘skilful, good with the hands’ comes from the Latin for ‘right-handed’, the rather more negative sinister comes from the Latin for ‘left-handed’. And if you are ambidextrous, it is as though you have got two right hands: the word is from Latin ambi ‘both, on both sides’ and dexter ‘right, right-handed’. At one time ambidextrous could also be used to mean ‘double-dealing, trying to please both sides’, as in ‘a little, dirty, pimping, pettifogging, ambidextrous fellow’ (Laurence Sterne, 1768). Definition of ambidextrous in US English: ambidextrous adjectiveˌæmbiˈdɛkst(ə)rəsˌambēˈdekst(ə)rəs 1(of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well. （人）两手都善用的 few of us are naturally ambidextrous 我们中间很少人天生是两手同样灵巧的。 Example sentencesExamples I'm slightly ambidextrous (mostly right-handed including writing but I throw/bowl/chuck left-handed). Linden was ambidextrous, capable of using both her hands with equal ability - to write, throw, anything. ‘I'll have you know I'm ambidextrous,’ Dee sniffed. However, with practice, a child can become competent on both sides and where football is concerned my feeling is that if a child is taught from a very early age to use both feet, they can become ambidextrous. It's just different, in the way that right-handed people are different from, but not better than, left-handed or ambidextrous people. Over two-thirds of the parents indicated that at least one, if not both, parents are left-handed or ambidextrous. Other left-handers I know are reasonably ambidextrous, but sadly not many of us are capable of doing everything with both hands. Australia's John Buchanan would like ambidextrous players. I'm trying to become ambidextrous, but it isn't really working. He throws and bats left-handed, but he's ambidextrous. He carved only with his right hand and was surprised to learn that some carvers were ambidextrous. Let me be clear here that I am not really concerned with whether she was left- or right-handed, or even ambidextrous. This does not necessarily mean that you are ambidextrous. Although I'm ambidextrous, there are few things I do equally well with either hand. Witness the ambidextrous chimpanzee: In captivity, it typically picks branches up with its left hand but digs peanut butter out of a tube with its right. My father, who's ambidextrous, makes it look easy. He became ambidextrous, using his left hand instead. The chance element may also explain why some people are ambidextrous rather than clearly right or left-handed. The Nottingham star remarked that his ambidextrous opponent was probably not as good playing with his left hand as his right. ‘We're not all ambidextrous,’ Vaughn said, catching his breath. 1.1 (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease. （工具）左右手均宜使用的 Example sentencesExamples In addition to the hammer assembly, the kit includes the mainspring, the ambidextrous safety assembly, and an extra power plunger spring. The back of it sports ambidextrous safety levers. A gentle nudge on the ambidextrous blade stud, and the knife's special design quickly opens the blade. If your customer is left-handed, then an ambidextrous safety add-on is in order - installed by someone competent. The light is activated with an ambidextrous pressure switch just under the trigger guard, wrapped around the front area of the grips. The ten round magazine is released with an ambidextrous lever mounted on the bottom of the trigger guard. It's an ambidextrous design for the most part, but it's still better suited for right handers. The new wire clip is ambidextrous and carries the knife tip down. The ambidextrous safety levers were just the right size: big enough to be fast and positive to release, small enough that they weren't accidentally released in routine carry. The design of the stock is highly ergonomic and totally ambidextrous, so it doesn't take long at all to become intimately familiar with the gun. Origin Mid 17th century: from late Latin ambidexter (from Latin ambi- ‘on both sides’ + dexter ‘right-handed’) + -ous.
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