Synonyms of the word

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.

anticlockwise

• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at…
• adv. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) In an anticlockwise fashion.

contraclockwise

• adv. counterclockwise.
• adj. counterclockwise.

counterclockwise

• adv. (US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
• adj. (US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

left-handed

• adj. Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
• adj. Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
• adj. Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
• adj. Awkward or maladroit.
• adj. Insincere or malicious.
• n. Left-handed people, taken as a whole.

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.

sinistrorsal

• adj. Rising spirally from right to left (of the observer); sinistrorse.

sinistrorse

• adj. Turning to the left (of the observer) in the ascending line.