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adj
Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: foreboding, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, nefastous, omenic, ominous, brooding, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: malicious, malevolent, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, demonic, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malign, malignant, naughty, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of the left side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dexter
adj
Of the left side.
On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dexter
adj
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
on or starting from the wearer's left
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable-Thomas Hardy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: black, dark
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *senh2- Proto-Indo-European *senh2-is-? Proto-Italic *senisteros Latin sinister Late Latin sinextrum Old French senestrebor. Middle English sinistre English sinister From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French senestre, sinistre (“left”), from Latin sinister (“left hand”).
Across languages
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
