sinister
1100 vocabulary504 vocabularysin‧is‧ter /ˈsɪnəstə, ˈsɪnɪstə $ -ər/ adjective
گمراه کننده، بدخواه، کج، نادرست، خطا، فاسد، بدیمن، بدشگون، نامیمون، شیطانی
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Synonyms & Related Wordssinister[adjective]Synonyms: threatening, dire, disquieting, evil, malign, menacing, ominous
Contrasted words: harmless, innocent, innocuous
Related Words: fateful,
ill-omened,
inauspicious,
ominous,
portentous,
unpropitious,
apocalyptic,
dire,
doomful,
ill-boding,
threatening,
lowering,
menacing,
evil,
malicious [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English Dictionarysin‧is‧ter /ˈsɪnəstə, ˈsɪnɪstə $ -ər/
adjective[
Date: 1400-1500;
Language: Old French;
Origin: sinistre, from Latin sinister 'left-handed, unlucky']
making you feel that something evil, dangerous, or illegal is happening or will happen
there is something/nothing sinister about somebody/something
There was something sinister about Mr Scott’s death. There is a sinister side to these events. He was a handsome man, in a sinister sort of way. a sinister atmosphere [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationssinister adj. VERBS be, look, seem, sound | find sth ADV. downright, extremely, really, very | almost | faintly, rather, slightly, somewhat, vaguely I found his silence rather sinister.
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