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What does the word 'sinister' mean?
What does the word 'sinister' symbolize?
What does the word 'sinister' signify?
Pronunciation:
[ sˈɪnɪstə], [ sˈɪnɪstə], [ s_ˈɪ_n_ɪ_s_t_ə]
Related words: sinister movie, sinister nightmares, sinister clown, mesmeric sinister
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Similar words for sinister:
- all (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- creepy (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- forbidding (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- inauspicious (adjective)
- indirect (adjective)
- left (adjective)
- left-handed (adjective)
- lurid (adjective)
- malevolent (adjective)
- malign (adjective)
- nasty, menacing (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pernicious (adjective)
- perturbing (adjective)
- threatening (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- undue (adjective)
- unhospitable (adjective)
- unscrupulous (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- wicked (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- forbidding (noun)
- menacing (noun)
- minacious (noun)
- minatory (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- stain (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- diabolical
- discouraging
- portentous
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Sinister:
adj.
• all (adjective) • baleful (adjective) • black (adjective) • creepy (adjective)- dis-gusting,
- more shuddersome,
- more itching,
- most shuddersome,
- hair raising,
- hairraising,
- dis gusting,
- un pleasant,
- un-pleasant,
- most itching.
- infamous,
- unpropitious,
- somber,
- morose,
- drab.
- dis concerting,
- more dismaying,
- dis-concerting,
- most aggravating,
- more vexing,
- embarrassing,
- most disconcerting,
- most impeding,
- most discommoding,
- more discomforting,
- most discomposing,
- most agitating,
- dis-maying,
- in convenient,
- troubling,
- more discommoding,
- dis maying,
- more impeding,
- impeding,
- dis comforting,
- most troubling,
- dis-comforting,
- more agitating,
- dis composing,
- more disconcerting,
- most discomforting,
- more aggravating,
- in-convenient,
- more troubling,
- dis-composing,
- more discomposing,
- most vexing,
- most dismaying.
- baneful,
- loathsome,
- atrocious,
- injurious,
- devilish,
- disgraceful,
- repellent,
- monstrous,
- Fiendish,
- diabolical,
- unlucky,
- mischievous,
- offensive,
- adverse,
- hideous,
- terrible,
- satanic,
- revolting,
- damnable,
- unfavorable,
- heinous,
- dire,
- foreboding,
- foul,
- evil,
- calamitous,
- unfortunate,
- repulsive,
- bad,
- poisonous,
- nefarious,
- deleterious,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- wicked,
- woeful,
- repugnant,
- sinful,
- reprehensible,
- abominable.
- more glowering,
- most glowering,
- dis agreeable,
- un-friendliest,
- offputting,
- dis-agreeable,
- off putting,
- most off putting,
- un-friendlier,
- most off-putting,
- un approachable,
- unapproachable,
- un friendlier,
- more off putting,
- un-friendly,
- most offputting,
- un-approachable,
- more offputting,
- un friendliest,
- more off-putting.
- in exorable,
- in-tractable,
- in-exorable,
- most scowling,
- stern,
- un yielding,
- un relenting,
- in tractable,
- most splenetic,
- un-relenting,
- more scowling,
- re-solute,
- more splenetic,
- un-yielding,
- re solute,
- most crabbed,
- splenetic.
- in despair,
- past hope,
- unachievable,
- irremediable,
- irredeemable,
- beyond recall,
- no-win,
- shot down,
- up the creek,
- helpless,
- unmitigable,
- goner.
- un favorable,
- un kinder,
- un-favorable,
- un luckier,
- un promising,
- ill,
- un luckiest,
- un-luckier,
- un kindest,
- illmannered,
- un-kinder,
- un-kind,
- un-kindest,
- un lucky,
- most unpromising,
- most nocent,
- un-lucky,
- ill mannered,
- more unpromising,
- dis-respectful,
- un kind,
- un gracious,
- un-promising,
- un-luckiest,
- more nocent,
- dis respectful,
- un-gracious.
- ill omened,
- un-timeliest,
- most ill-omened,
- un-timelier,
- in-opportune,
- most illomened,
- illboding,
- un-timely,
- in auspicious,
- more illomened,
- ill boding,
- un timelier,
- inauspicious,
- more ill-omened,
- more ill omened,
- un timely,
- in-auspicious,
- Ill-boding,
- un timeliest,
- most ill omened,
- in opportune.
- dis-cursive,
- long winded,
- periphrastic,
- under hand,
- more vagrant,
- dis cursive,
- more twisting,
- more circumlocutory,
- most vagrant,
- more sidelong,
- most circumlocutory,
- implied,
- most sidelong,
- in direct,
- under-hand,
- more snaking,
- most twisting,
- long drawn out,
- most snaking,
- in-direct.
- lefthanded,
- southpaw,
- in sincerest,
- most ambilevous,
- Ambilevous,
- in sincerer,
- in-sincere,
- in-sincerest,
- more southpaw,
- more ambilevous,
- in sincere,
- in-sincerer,
- most southpaw,
- left handed.
- more horrifying,
- off color,
- offcolor,
- most horrifying,
- more low down,
- most lowdown,
- most low down,
- more low-down,
- most low-down,
- low down,
- more lowdown.
- churlish,
- antagonistic,
- mean,
- corrosive,
- vicious,
- hurtful,
- treacherous,
- rancorous,
- spiteful,
- malicious,
- hateful,
- nasty,
- malignant,
- Black-hearted,
- bitter,
- hostile,
- ill-natured,
- vindictive,
- sullen,
- bad-natured,
- catty,
- virulent.
- most malificent,
- in hospitable,
- more premonitory,
- more precursive,
- pre-cursive,
- most presaging,
- most precursive,
- pre-monitory,
- more doomful,
- more malificent,
- in-hospitable,
- pre cursive,
- most doomful,
- more presaging,
- pre monitory,
- most premonitory.
- disturbing,
- off-putting,
- sidelong,
- exploitative,
- indirect,
- dark,
- low-down,
- long way home,
- malificent,
- longwinded,
- undue,
- pernicious,
- unscrupulous,
- Doomful,
- ill-omened,
- casuistic,
- Snaking,
- troublous,
- left,
- nocent,
- circumlocutory,
- fearful,
- upsetting,
- grim,
- lowdown,
- ugly,
- unsettling,
- threatening,
- premonitory,
- ominous,
- perturbing,
- unconscientious,
- Precursive,
- left-handed,
- malign,
- baleful,
- shuddersome,
- harmful,
- illomened,
- creepy,
- lurid,
- unpromising,
- maleficent,
- dishonest.
- more exploitative,
- most exploitative,
- un scrupulous,
- self seeking,
- un ethical,
- de graded,
- selfseeking,
- un-ethical,
- most unconscientious,
- dis graceful,
- un worthy,
- un worthiest,
- un-conscientious,
- un conscientious,
- more casuistic,
- dis-honorable,
- un-worthier,
- de-grading,
- dis-graceful,
- de-graded,
- most casuistic,
- more unconscientious,
- un-worthiest,
- un-scrupulous,
- dis honorable,
- de grading,
- un worthier.
n.
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- warn.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- sneaking.
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- opposing.
- counteractive,
- saturnine,
- exactly,
- liberal,
- dismal,
- fishy,
- deep,
- direful,
- bootleg,
- Facinorous,
- questionable,
- dour,
- gauche,
- peccant,
- defect,
- contemptible,
- shameful,
- deviative,
- awful,
- momentous,
- cancerous,
- naughty,
- moody,
- dark-skinned,
- sedition,
- mephistophelian,
- hard,
- violently,
- phantasmal,
- revolt,
- unlawfulness,
- nearside,
- Leftward,
- dirty trick,
- counter,
- rebellion,
- dishonourable,
- unworthy,
- jackleg,
- pitch black,
- opprobrious,
- unevenly,
- dirty,
- gap,
- untoward,
- shady,
- preternatural,
- inglorious,
- unconscionable,
- left-wing,
- cabal,
- doomed,
- iniquity,
- sinistrorse,
- levorotatory,
- unholy,
- frightful,
- Looming,
- amoral,
- doomy,
- dingy,
- radical,
- tightly,
- horrid,
- ill-starred,
- horrific,
- flagrant,
- darkly,
- infernal,
- unnatural,
- difficult,
- fault,
- dim,
- malignancy,
- near,
- Portending,
- badness,
- boding,
- dread,
- depravity,
- impish,
- terrific,
- twist,
- troublesome,
- cruel,
- inaccurate,
- injury,
- fatal,
- non-white,
- ruffian,
- knavish,
- shifty,
- bad luck,
- miserable,
- dubious,
- excursive,
- underhand,
- sinistrorsal,
- backhand,
- thickly,
- drawback,
- ghastly,
- frightening,
- harshly,
- contraband,
- rigorous,
- unethical,
- midnight,
- sorry,
- closely,
- dirty work,
- wickedness,
- badly,
- deviant,
- vile,
- intrigue,
- crying shame,
- conspiracy,
- underhanded,
- godless,
- injustice,
- blackened,
- ghost-like,
- badge of infamy,
- backhanded,
- side,
- flaw,
- champain,
- unpleasant,
- wretched,
- sin,
- ungodly,
- murkily,
- intimidating,
- rascal,
- perverted,
- apparition,
- ignominious,
- pitch-dark,
- depressing,
- weakness,
- fraught with danger,
- coloured,
- corrupted,
- counterclockwise,
- unearthly,
- of evil portent,
- sinistrality,
- grave,
- glum,
- invalid,
- contrary,
- roughly,
- drear,
- sour,
- attainder,
- Ill-got,
- smutty,
- taint,
- evilness,
- traitorous,
- wraithlike,
- smuggled,
- half blood,
- achromatic,
- gross,
- impending,
- divergent,
- not kosher,
- coarsely,
- sneaky,
- port,
- closed,
- inferior,
- demonic,
- inimical,
- blue,
- confederacy,
- in opposition,
- wrong,
- spooky,
- stressful,
- Sinistrous,
- downbeat,
- unwholesome,
- hooligan,
- harrowing,
- gloomily,
- unkind,
- unprincipled,
- bully,
- madcap,
- dreadful,
- bringing ruin,
- horrifying,
- Star-crossed,
- ill-gotten,
- fell,
- appalling,
- colored,
- scary,
- unreal,
- bitchy,
- inclemency,
- supernatural,
- almost,
- sinistrocular,
- shadowlike,
- suspicious,
- furtive,
- unskillful,
- danger,
- dishonorable,
- horrible,
- flagitious,
- Unhospitable,
- ghostly,
- weak point,
- unfavourable,
- opposite,
- accursed,
- impious,
- bend sinister,
- ghoulish,
- surly,
- crazy,
- inexpedient,
- blemish,
- oblique,
- execrable,
- nigh,
- shameless,
- black market,
- Bodeful,
- opposed,
- harm,
- grotesque,
- approximately,
- Fiendly,
- clouded,
- dispiriting,
- ill-fated,
- miscreant,
- dreary,
- cat-hearted,
- scowling,
- squint-eyed,
- demon,
- break,
- left-hand,
- slippery,
- devil,
- plot,
- benighted,
- odious,
- hellish,
- phantom,
- reprobate,
- ghost,
- devious,
- conflicting,
- informality,
- comminatory,
- digressive,
- scurvy,
- strictly,
- doubtful,
- illegitimacy,
- unhealthy,
- illegality,
- mordant,
- deathly,
- rudely,
- Scandalum magnatum,
- uncanny,
- despicable,
- shortcoming,
- burning shame,
- secret,
- nearly,
- evasive,
- byword of reproach,
- specter,
- sinistrocerebral,
- conscienceless,
- imminent,
- narrowly,
- terrifying,
- rotten,
- macabre,
- intimately,
- corruption,
- obscure,
- insidious,
- tricky,
- awkward,
- glowering,
- fateful,
- fraudulent,
- incarnate,
- hardly,
- demoniac,
- bleak,
- eerie,
- severely,
- trying,
- louring,
- circuitous,
- virtually,
- weird,
- not easy,
- damage,
- damned,
- unsavory,
- cloudy,
- spectral,
- deadly,
- gruesome,
- heavy,
- crooked,
- disconsolate,
- inhuman,
- strange,
- cacodemonic,
- mischief,
- dimly,
- prankish.
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Adjective
appalling, baleful, bleak, catastrophic, dangerous, depressing, destructive, devastating, dire, disastrous, dismal, disquieting, disturbing, dreadful, fatal, fateful, frightening, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, ill-fated, left, malicious, malignant, obscure, pernicious, shady, terrible, treacherous, troubling, underhand, unfortunate, unspeakable, vile, left-wing.
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