sinistre

Meaning

Concepts

sinister
baleful
ominous
grim
threatening
ghastly
menacing
accident
scary
gruesome
dire
eerie
uncanny
macabre
grisly
disaster

insurance claim

damage
shivery
weird
minatory
portentous
portentously
shuddery
sick
🤢
sombre
suspicious
terrific
terrifying
wolfish

ghastlyness

ill omen

scarey
presageful
godawful
presagious
act of God
bad luck
calamity
chilling
claim
conflagration
creepy
dim
direful
disastrous
dismal
eery
fatality
forbidding
Synonyms

effrayant
B2
funeste
22k
horrible
A2
menaçant
C2
lugubre
C2
macabre
20k
inquiétant
C2
épouvantable
C1
funèbre
C2
affreux
B2
morbide
C2
formidable
B1
hideux
C2
laid
C1
obscur
C1
odieux
C2
préjudice
C2
repoussant
24k
répugnant
C1
sénestre
sombre
B1
terrible
A2
torve
affolant
angoissant
33k
effrayante
C2
terrifiant
C1

de mauvais présage

apeurant
inquiétante
20k

thanatophile

apeurante

terrorisant

épeurant

épeurante

gothique
22k

terrorisante

abject
29k
abominable
C2
accident
A2
cataclysme
36k
dégât
26k
de mauvais augure
détestable
21k
dommage
A2
étrange
A2
foncé
C1
Translations

siniestro
sinistro
sinistre
onheilspellend
korkunç
sinistro
grausig
assustador
Unfall
eng
schrecklich

sinistre

ramp
Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/si.nistʁ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin
Latin
sinister
In summary

Borrowed from Latin sinister, whence also French senestre, an inherited doublet.

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