'Sinister' definitions:
Definition of 'sinister'
From: WordNet
adjective
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]
adjective
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister]
adjective
On or starting from the wearer's left; "bar sinister"
Definition of 'Sinister'
From: GCIDE
- Sinister \Sin"is*ter\ (s[i^]n"[i^]s*t[~e]r; 277), a.
- Note: [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F. sinistre.]
- 1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In heraldy the sinister side of an escutcheon is the side which would be on the left of the bearer of the shield, and opposite the right hand of the beholder. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences. [1913 Webster]
- All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims. [1913 Webster]
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts. --South. [1913 Webster]
- He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance. [1913 Webster]
- Bar sinister. (Her.) See under Bar, n.
- Sinister aspect (Astrol.), an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini.
- Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sinister'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adverse,
- amoral,
- antagonistic,
- apocalyptic,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- base,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- circuitous,
- conflicting,
- conscienceless,
- contrary,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- counterclockwise,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- deflectional,
- detrimental,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diabolical,
- difficult,
- digressive,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doomful,
- doubtful,
- dreary,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- excursive,
- fateful,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- foreboding,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gloomy,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immoral,
- improper,
- in opposition,
- inaccurate,
- inauspicious,
- indirect,
- inexpedient,
- inferior,
- inimical,
- insidious,
- invalid,
- larboard,
- left,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- left-wing,
- left-wingish,
- levorotatory,
- liberal,
- lowering,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- miserable,
- near,
- nefarious,
- nigh,
- not easy,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- port,
- portending,
- portentous,
- questionable,
- radical,
- rigorous,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinful,
- sinistral,
- sinistrocerebral,
- sinistrocular,
- sinistrogyrate,
- sinistrorse,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- somber,
- stressful,
- suspicious,
- threatening,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhealthy,
- unkind,
- unlucky,
- unpleasant,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unskillful,
- unstraightforward,
- untoward,
- vicious,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wretched,
- wrong