dexter-, dextra-, dextro-
(Latin: right, right hand, to the right; therefore, "skillful, fortunate")
ambidexter
1. The ability to use either hand with equal skill.
2. General skillfulness, especially with the hands; very skillful and versatile; using both hands with equal facility.
3. A double-dealer; one who is equally ready to act on either side in party disputes.
ambidexterity
1. The ability to use either hand with equal skill.
2. General skillfulness, especially with the hands; very skillful and versatile; using both hands with equal facility.
ambidextrous, ambidextrously, ambidextrousness
1. Able to use both hands with equal facility.
2. Unusually skillful; adroit.
3. Deceptive or hypocritical.
4. Etymology: the word
ambidextrous is derived from the Latin roots
ambi, "both" and
dexter, "right" (as opposed to left) or "favorable"; therefore,
ambidextrous literally means "right on both sides".
Ambidexterity refers to being equally adept with each hand (or, to a limited degree, feet).
A person is ambidextrous when his left hand knows what his right hand is doing.
—Anonymous
ambisinistrodextrous
Equally skillful with both the left and the right hands.
ambo dexter
Skillful with both hands.
The literal meaning is "both right" or having "two right" hands.
amylodextrin
dexter
dexterity
dexterous
dexterously
dextrad
dextral
dextrality
dextran
dextrase
Nonspecific term for the complex of enzymes that converts dextrose (D-glucose) into lactic acid.
Words referring to the "left" or the "left side": sinistro-.
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