Synonyms of the word sinister


SINISTERALARMING - BALEFUL - BLACK - DARK - EVIL - FORBIDDING - MENACING - MINACIOUS - MINATORY - OMINOUS - SINISTRAL - THREATENING

sinister

  • adj. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
  • adj. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
  • adj. Of the left side.
  • adj. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
  • adj. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

alarming

  • v. present participle of alarm.
  • adj. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

baleful

  • adj. Portending evil; ominous.
  • adj. Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.

black

  • adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  • adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
  • adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
  • adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  • adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
  • adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  • adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
  • adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
  • adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
  • adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
  • adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
  • adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
  • adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
  • adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
  • n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  • n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
  • n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
  • n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
  • n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
  • n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
  • n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
  • n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
  • n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
  • v. To make black, to blacken.
  • v. To apply blacking to something.
  • v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

dark

  • adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
  • adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
  • adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
  • adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
  • adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  • adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
  • adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
  • n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
  • n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
  • n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
  • n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

evil

  • adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  • adj. Morally corrupt.
  • adj. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'.
  • adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  • adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  • adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
  • n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  • n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes…
  • n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

forbidding

  • adj. highly unpleasant or disagreeable.
  • adj. threatening or menacing.
  • v. present participle of forbid.
  • n. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

menacing

  • adj. Suggesting imminent harm.
  • adj. Threatening.
  • v. present participle of menace.
  • n. The act of making menaces or threats.

minacious

  • adj. (now rare) Threatening, menacing.

minatory

  • adj. Threatening, menacing.

ominous

  • adj. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
  • adj. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.

sinistral

  • adj. Of, facing, or on the left side.
  • adj. Left-handed.
  • adj. (zoology, of certain spiral shells) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed.
  • adj. (geology) Having left lateral fault movement.

threatening

  • v. present participle of threaten.
  • adj. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
  • n. An act of threatening; a threat.

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