Ambidexter

Quick meaning: Ambidexter is a noun meaning Someone who is ambidextrous.

Meaning

Someone who is ambidextrous.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Someone who is two-faced; a double-dealer, such as a cheat or a crook.
2. Ambidextrous.
3. (archaic) A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant.

Example Sentences

One takes upon him temperence, holiness […], whenas indeed he, and he, and he, and the rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, outsides, so many turning pictures, a lion on one side, a lamb on the other.

He then changed his battery, and being ambidexter, raised such a clatter upon the turnkey’s blind side, that this hero, believing him left-handed, converted his attention that way, and opposed the unenlightened side of his face to the right hand of Pipes […]

But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in his heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.

Word Forms

• ambidexters
• ambodexter

Synonyms for ambidexter

Depending on context, synonyms include ambi, amby.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include amby, two-hander, switch-hitter, ambilingual, all-arounder, bilingual.

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