Synonyms for Sinister

Synonyms for "sinister" (268 found)

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Closest matches (54)

evil sinistral threatening adverse amoral antagonistic apocalyptic backhand backhanded bad baleful baneful base black bodeful boding circuitous conflicting conscienceless contrary

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corrupt corrupted counter counteractive counterclockwise criminal crooked dark deflectional detrimental deviant deviative

Adjective(19 words)

baleful sullen abandoned arrant augurous bad bad apple bad seed baneful base bodeful boding brooding dark deleterious depraved despicable detrimental devilish

Adjective(3 words)

baleful black dark

Strong matches (80)

Related words (134)

invalid larboard left left handed left wing left-hand left-handed left-wing left-wingish leftward levorotatory liberal lowering lurid malefic maleficent malevolent malicious malign malignant

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Adjective(38 words)

knavish malefic maleficent malevolent malicious malign malignant nefarious nefastous niddering nidering niding nithing no-good omenic ominous peccaminous pernicious portentous presageful

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presagious prodigious reprehensible reprobate satanic scathful sinful sordid star-crossed ungodly unholy vicious vile villainous viperish viperous wicked wrong

Adjective(5 words)

menacing minacious minatory ominous threatening

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

dexter

Synonyms

1 entries

threatening

derived

6 entries

bar sinister baton sinister bend sinister sinister aspect sinister chief sinistral

has context

1 entries

heraldry

related to

12 entries

dishonest evil illegitimate inauspicious indirection left obliquity ominous perverse shield unlucky wrong

similar

5 entries

alarming evil sinistral

Translations

72 translations across 27 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries

I Mbrapsht adj (ominous)
majtë adj (of the left)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἀπαίσιος adj (ominous)

Arabic

1 entries

شَرِير adj (evil)

Bulgarian

4 entries

зловещ adj (ominous)
злокобен adj (ominous)
зъл adj (evil)
ляв adj (heraldic "left")

Catalan

1 entries

sinistre adj (ominous)

Czech

4 entries

hrozivý adj (evil)
levý adj (of the left)
zlověstný adj (ominous)
zlý adj (evil)

Danish

2 entries

heraldisk venstre adj (heraldic "left")
sinister adj (heraldic "left")

Esperanto

1 entries

minaca adj (ominous)

Finnish

4 entries

paha adj (evil)
pahaenteinen adj (ominous)
uhkaava adj (ominous)
vasemmanpuolinen adj (of the left)

French

3 entries

sinistre adj (ominous)
sinistre adj (evil)
sénestre adj (heraldic "left")

German

4 entries

böse adj (evil)
linker adj (heraldic "left")
links adj (of the left)
linksseitig adj (of the left)

Hebrew

2 entries

מרושע adj (evil)
רשע adj (evil)

Irish

1 entries

clé adj (of the left)

Italian

3 entries

sinistra adj (of the left)
sinistra adj (heraldic "left")
sinistro adj (evil)

Japanese

4 entries

奸な adj (evil)
左の adj (of the left)
左前の adj (ominous)
悪い adj (evil)

Kazakh

1 entries

залым adj (evil)

Macedonian

3 entries

зло́бен adj (evil)
зло́кобен adj (ominous)
зол adj (evil)

Malay

1 entries

jahat adj (evil)

Persian

1 entries

گجسته adj (ominous)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

dreiwent adj (ominous)

Polish

4 entries

arcygroźny adj (ominous)
arcygroźny adj (evil)
złowieszczy adj (ominous)
złowrogi adj (ominous)

Portuguese

4 entries

esquerdo adj (of the left)
sestro adj (of the left)
sinistro adj (ominous)
sinistro adj (evil)

Romanian

1 entries

sinistru adj (evil)

Russian

4 entries

злове́щий adj (ominous)
злой adj (evil)
злополу́чный adj (ominous)
находя́щийся сле́ва adj (of the left)

Spanish

4 entries

izquierdo adj (heraldic "left")
siniestro adj (evil)
siniestro adj (of the left)
siniestro adj (heraldic "left")

Swedish

2 entries

sinister adj (heraldic "left")
vänster adj (heraldic "left")

Telugu

1 entries

ఎడమ adj (of the left)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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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