#65: ambisinister

8/13/2015

if you can sing well
being ambisinister
may not be so bad

When you first look at some words, there can be a judgment or assumption about the meaning. "Ambisinister" sounds evil... ominous... because of the word sinister within. So ambisinister might then mean doubly bad?

Turns out "sinister" simply means, from the Latin, 'of or on the left side' while "ambi" means 'both.' The opposite, or right, is "dexter." You got it.

DEFINITION of this 5-syllable adjective:

clumsy or unskillful with both hands.

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