Synonyms for Sinister

Synonyms for "sinister" (204 found)

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Closest matches (41)

Adjective(10 words)

menacing ominous baleful black blacker creepiest creepy darkdark culturedarker

adverse amoral antagonistic apocalyptic backhand backhanded bad baleful baneful base black bodeful boding circuitous conflicting conscienceless contrary corrupt corrupted counter

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counteractive counterclockwise criminal crooked dark deflectional detrimental deviant deviative devilish devious

Strong matches (61)

diabolic diabolical difficult digressive dire disastrous dishonest dishonorable divagational divergent doomful doubtful dreary dubious evasive evil evil-starred excursive fatal fateful

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Adjective(1 words)

eerie

Adjective(3 words)

evil eviler forbidding

Related words (102)

leftleft handedleft wingleft-hand left-handed left-wing left-wingish leftward levorotatory liberal lowering lurid malefic maleficent malevolent malicious malign malignant menacing minacious

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Adjective(9 words)

left sideleft-hand minacious minatoryominous toneport portside shadowier threatening

Noun(1 words)

portuguese ominoso

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries

descriptor directiondirectional termside

More specific

8 entries

dire foreboding grimleft heraldic positionleft-hand macabre portsideshield left

Collocations

12 entries

armorial leftheraldic sinisterleft sideleft side of shieldsinister connotationsinister influencesinister motivesinister overtonessinister sidesinister smilesinister threatthe sinister

Inflections

3 entries

more sinistermost sinistersinisters

Derivations

2 entries

sinisterly sinisterness

similar

3 entries

alarming evil sinistral

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The most famous painting in the exposition depicted a starry sky with bats flying over it. It was a little sinister.

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He gave me a sinister look.

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Tom gave Mary a sinister look.

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There is sorcery behind this, said a sinister voice coming from the crowd.

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Sinister