SINISTER | • sinister adj. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister). • sinister adj. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm. • sinister adj. (Archaic) Of the left side. |
SINISTRAL | • sinistral adj. Of, facing, or on the left side. • sinistral adj. Left-handed. • sinistral adj. (Zoology, of certain spiral shells) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed. |
SINISTERLY | • sinisterly adv. In a sinister manner. • SINISTER adv. threatening or portending evil, also SINISTROUS. |
SINISTRALS | • sinistrals n. Plural of sinistral. • SINISTRAL n. a left-handed person. |
SINISTROUS | • sinistrous adj. (Archaic) On the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral. • sinistrous adj. (Archaic) wrong; absurd; perverse. • SINISTROUS adj. inauspicious, sinister, also SINISTER. |
SINISTERITY | • SINISTERITY n. left-handedness. |
SINISTRALLY | • sinistrally adv. Toward the left; in a sinistral manner. • SINISTRAL adv. of or pertaining to the left, as opposed to dextral. |
SINISTRORSE | • sinistrorse adj. Turning to the left (of the observer) in the ascending line. • SINISTRORSE adj. rising spirally and turning from right to left. |
SINISTERNESS | • sinisterness n. The state or condition of being sinister. • SINISTERNESS n. the state of being sinister. |
SINISTERWISE | • sinisterwise adj. (Heraldry, archaic) sinister; on the left-hand side from the wearer’s viewpoint. • SINISTERWISE adv. in left-handed fashion. |
SINISTRALITY | • sinistrality n. Left-handedness. • SINISTRALITY n. the state of being sinistral. |
SINISTRORSAL | • sinistrorsal adj. Rising spirally from right to left (of the observer); sinistrorse. • SINISTRORSAL adj. of a climbing plant, rising helically and turning to the right. |
SINISTROUSLY | • sinistrously adv. In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily. • sinistrously adv. With a tendency to use the left hand. • SINISTROUS adv. inauspicious, sinister, also SINISTER. |
SINISTERITIES | • SINISTERITY n. left-handedness. |
SINISTRORSELY | • sinistrorsely adv. In a sinistrorse manner. • SINISTRORSE adv. rising spirally and turning from right to left. |
SINISTERNESSES | • SINISTERNESS n. the state of being sinister. |
SINISTRALITIES | • SINISTRALITY n. the state of being sinistral. |
SINISTRORSALLY | • SINISTRORSAL adv. of a climbing plant, rising helically and turning to the right. |
SINISTRODEXTRAL | • sinistrodextral adj. Moving or directed from the left to the right. • SINISTRODEXTRAL adj. going or directed from left to right, as a sinistrodextral script. |