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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
threatening or foreshadowing evil, injury, or danger; menacing; ominous.
a sinister comment- synonyms:
- baleful, forbidding, foreboding, malignant, minatory, ominous, threatening
- similar words:
- alarming, dangerous, dire, direful, grim, ill, malefic, menacing, portentous
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| definition 2: |
showing evil intentions.
a sinister plot- synonyms:
- evil, ill, malefic, malign, malignant, wicked
- similar words:
- baleful, base, foul, harmful, heinous, malevolent, nefarious, pernicious, vicious, vile
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| definition 3: |
of or on the left side. (Cf. dexter.)
- synonyms:
- sinistral
- antonyms:
- dexter
- similar words:
- larboard, left-hand, port
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black, dark, dire, fatal, hateful, heinous, portentous, satanic, ugly, unfavorable |
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