sinister

Signification (Anglais)

1. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
2. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
3. (archaic) Of the left side.
4. On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
5. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

Concepts

sinistre

menaçant

sénestre

torve

noir

patibulaire

de mauvais présage

senestre

de mauvais augure

senestrochère

funeste

laid

obscur

sombre

Opposé de

dexter

Synonymes

ominous

evil

threatening

baleful

menacing

inauspicious

minatory

ill-omened

nasty

dark

treacherous

vicious

malign

black

minacious

unholy

unlucky

portentous

lowering

bad

👎

wicked

malicious

ill-boding

forbidding

angry

😠

sinistral

sinistrous

left

execrable

mean

perverse

pessimistic

rancorous

shady

spiteful

stinking

sullen

tricky

underhand

vile

virulent

wickedness

wily

wolfish

ill omen

presageful

abominable

presagious

awful

bad luck

Traductions

siniestro

sinistro

sinistra

uğursuz

unheimlich

sinistre

böse

nefasto

kötü

👎

sinister

sinistro

ameaçador

δυσοίωνος

απαίσιος

bieco

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɪnɪstə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sinistre

In summary

From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French senestre, sinistre (“left”), from Latin sinister (“left hand”).