sinister

Adjective Satellite

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  • "sinister storm clouds"
  • "a sinister smile"
• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; ; ; ; ; ; ; -Thomas Hardy
  • "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"
• on or starting from the wearer's left
  • "bar sinister"

Adj

• Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
• Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
• 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.

Adjective

• Threatening evil, harm, or trouble; menacing.

Examples

• A sinister feeling crept over him as his opponent lined up a triple-triple word in Words With Friends.
• sinister influences
• the sinister atmosphere of the crypt

Synonyms

baleful, black, dark, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening, abandoned, arrant, augurous, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baneful, base, bodeful, boding, brooding, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, dire, disastrous, evil, fatal, flagitious, foreboding, harmful, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-starred, immoral, inauspicate, inauspicious, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, nefastous, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, omenic, peccaminous, pernicious, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, star-crossed, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong

Antonyms

dexter

Anagrams of sinister