two-handed

1. 1.

   equally skillful with each hand

   “an ambidextrous surgeon”

   Synonymsambidextrous

   Similarequipoised
2. 2.

   requiring two hands or designed for two people

   “a two-handed sledgehammer”

   “a two-handed crosscut saw”

   “a machine designed for bimanual operation”

   Synonymsbimanual

   Similarhanded

Questions about two-handed

What does two-handed mean?

two-handed means "equally skillful with each hand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in two-handed?

two-handed has 3 syllables: two--han-ded. The stress falls on "two-".

What is another word for two-handed?

Close synonyms include ambidextrous, bimanual. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is two-handed a common word?

two-handed 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.