sinister
Meaning of sinister
adjective
- Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
- Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
sinister influences
- Of the left side.
- On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
- Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
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Hyphenation of sinister
sin-is-ter
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- sinister is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
sinister synonyms
Meaning baleful:
baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening
Meaning black:
sinister antonyms
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Anagrams of sinister
Words that rhyme with sinister
Ster, Alabaster, Alaster, Caster, Clypeaster, Cotoneaster, Doncaster, Easter, Geaster, Goniaster, Hymenogaster, Lancaster, Latinitaster, Master, McMaster, Melanogaster, Micraster, Microgaster, Olpidiaster, Opulaster, Peaster, Peltogaster, StairMaster, Stylaster, Ticketmaster, Webmaster, Zoroaster, adelaster, alabaster, alablaster, aletaster, amphiaster, arblaster, archigaster, archworkmaster, aster, astrologaster, axemaster, axmaster, baggagemaster, ballaster, bandmaster, bargemaster, barmaster, baster, beachmaster, beanfeaster, beemaster, beetmaster, bellmaster
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