equipoised

1. 1.

   lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed

   Similarambidextrous

Questions about equipoised

What does equipoised mean?

equipoised means "lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed".

How many syllables are in equipoised?

equipoised has 4 syllables and divides as eq-ui-poi-sed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is equipoised a common word?

equipoised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.