sinister
11sinister — [adj] nasty, menacing adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, blackhearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malefic,… …
12sinister — ► ADJECTIVE 1) suggestive of evil or harm. 2) archaic & Heraldry on or towards the left hand side and the observer s right of a coat of arms. DERIVATIVES sinisterly adverb. ORIGIN Latin, left …
13sinister — 01. The [sinister] voice on the other end of the telephone warned me to stop my investigation immediately. 02. The new Queen has a [sinister] plan to poison the King so that her son can take over the throne. 03. The villain laughed [sinisterly]… …
14sinister — sin|is|ter [ˈsınıstə US ər] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: sinistre, from Latin sinister left handed, unlucky ] making you feel that something evil, dangerous, or illegal is happening or will happen there is sth/nothing sinister… …
15sinister — adjective Etymology: Middle English sinistre, from Anglo French senestre on the left, from Latin sinistr , sinister on the left side, unlucky, inauspicious Date: 15th century 1. archaic unfavorable, unlucky 2. archaic fraudulent 3. singularly… …
16sinister — [[t]sɪ̱nɪstə(r)[/t]] ADJ GRADED Something that is sinister seems evil or harmful. There was something sinister about him that she found disturbing. ...a sinister and frightening place. ...a sinister conspiracy by well trained terrorists or gangs …
17sinister — sinisterly, adv. sinisterness, n. /sin euh steuhr/, adj. 1. threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark. 2. bad, evil, base, or wicked; fell: his sinister purposes. 3. unfortunate; disastrous; unfavorable: a… …
18sinister — adjective making you feel that something evil, wrong, or illegal is happening or will happen: a sinister figure lurking in the shadows | a sinister looking mask | Was it all a cover up for more sinister activities? …
19sinister — unheilvoll; finster; böse; widerwärtig; links * * * si|nịs|ter 〈Adj.; geh.〉 böse, unheilvoll, unselig, finster ● eine sinistre Sache [lat.] * * * si|nịs|ter <Adj.> [lat. sinister, eigtl. = links]: 1. (bildungsspr.) ↑ düster (1 d) …
20sinister — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look, seem, sound ▪ find sth ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very …
