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As an adjective ambilevous is

(rare) having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.

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ambilevous

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Alternative forms

* The Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) lists the ligated spelling () listed as secondary. (very rare) * ambilaevous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
  • * 1646': Sir Thomas Browne and Nath Ekins, ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' (' 1658 republication), page 164
    • Again, Some are as Galen hath expre??ed : that is, Ambilevous or left-handed on both ?ides; ?uch as with agility and vigour have not the u?e of either : who are not gymna?tically compo?ed : nor actively u?e tho?e parts. Now in the?e there is no right hand : of this con?titution are many women, and ?ome men, who though they accu?tome them?elves unto either hand, do dexterou?ly make u?e of neither.
  • * 1953 : The Pediatric Clinics of North America , page 607 (W.B. Saunders Co.)
    • Whereas the ambidextrous person is regarded as one who is capable of using both hands with equal dexterity, there are others, referred to as ambilevous , who use both hands equally awkwardly.
  • * 1960 : Harry Bakwin and Ruth Mae Morris Bakwin, Clinical Management of Behavior Disorders in Children , page 330 (Saunders)
    • The ambilevous (the opposite of ambidextrous) child is unable to use either hand more skillfully than the other, but is equally awkward in the use of each.
  • * 1998 : Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem, Relativism and Beyond , page 262] ([http://www.brill.nl/ BRILL; ISBN 9004109307)
    • I as a right-handed person do not have the option of becoming genuinely ambidextrous, literally one with ‘two right hands’. And I surely must guard against sinking into one is who is doubly left-handed, or ambilevous . (We may notice the prejudice uncovered by etymology.) But I can, by will and practice, lessen the native inferiority of my weaker side.

    Antonyms

    * ambidextrous

    Synonyms

    * ambisinistrous1996: Marjorie B. Garber, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life , page 284 (Simon & Schuster; ISBN 0684803089, 9780684803081)

    References

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