ambidextrous

3 definitions found

ambidextrous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ambidextrous \Am`bi*dex"trous\, a.
     1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
        --Sir T. Browne.
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     2. Practicing or siding with both parties.
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              All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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ambidextrous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ambidextrous
      adj 1: equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous
             surgeon" [syn: ambidextrous, two-handed] [ant: left-  handed
             , right-handed]
      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 [syn:
         ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous,
         Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]

ambidextrous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambidextrous":
     Janus-like, Machiavellian, adaptable, adjustable, all-around,
     ambidexter, ambidextral, amphibious, artful, bifacial, bifold,
     biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent,
     conduplicate, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, dextrosinistral,
     dishonest, disomatous, double, double-dealing, double-faced,
     double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, dual, duple, duplex,
     duplicate, duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled,
     falsehearted, flexible, geminate, geminated, generally capable,
     hypocritical, left-handed, many-sided, mobile, perfidious,
     resourceful, second, secondary, shifty, sinistrodextral, slippery,
     supple, treacherous, tricky, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-handed,
     two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, versatile