Canadian English Meaning of sinister
sinister
Other Canadian English words related to sinister
- menacing
- ominous
- baleful
- bleak
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- dire
- foreboding
- grey
- grey
- sick
- ill-boding
- inauspicious
- lonely
- menacing
- murky
- portentous
- somber
- threatening
- unfortunate
- dismal
- Cheerless
- chill, cool
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- cheerless
- dim
- disconsolate
- disheartening
- disheartening
- dismal
- drear
- Dreary
- elegiac
- elegiac
- evil
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- God-forsaken
- hopeless
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- malignant
- Malignant
- morbid
- glum
- Plutonian
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- concerned
- unfavourable
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- gloomy
Nearest Words of sinister
Definitions and Meaning of sinister in English
sinister (s)
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
on or starting from the wearer's left
sinister (a.)
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
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sinister
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments, stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable, on or starting from the wearer's
menacing,ominous,baleful,bleak,dark,darkening,depressing,depressive,desolate,dire
benign,bright,encouraging,favourable,golden,hopeful,promising,Prosperous,unthreatening,Auspicious
sinigrin => Sinigrin, sinicism => sinicism, sinical => Sinister, sinic => Chinese, siniate => winding,
