Synonyms for sinister
ˈsɪn ə stərsin·is·ter

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1. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

2. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

3. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

4. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

5. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. sinister

   Synonyms:
   unlucky, inauspicious, ill-omened, portentous, disastrous, unfavorable, wrong, unfair, underhanded, evil, foul, dishonest, dishonorable, forbidding, repulsive, lowering

   Antonyms:
   lucky, fortunate, propitious, auspicious, favorable, right, fair, open, honest, honorable, attractive, winning, engaging, assuring, frank

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1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

   threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

   Synonyms:
   grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, forbidding, threatening

   Antonyms:
   dextral, good, unalarming

2. black, dark, sinisteradjective

   stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

   "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

   Synonyms:
   blackened, ominous, sullen, bootleg, black-market, disgraceful, calamitous, forbidding, dismal, dark, moody, non-white, disconsolate, threatening, coloured, glum, fatal, dark-skinned, black, fateful, baleful, smuggled, inglorious, menacing, dim, pitch-dark, glowering, minatory, obscure, sour, pitch-black, grim, mordant, drab, benighted, contraband, shameful, saturnine, disastrous, smutty, ignominious, sorry, gloomy, morose, bleak, dingy, dreary, dour, drear, opprobrious, minacious, blue

   Antonyms:
   good, unalarming, dextral

3. sinisteradjective

   on or starting from the wearer's left

   "bar sinister"

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, dark, minacious, baleful, minatory, black, menacing, threatening, ominous

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, good, dextral

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. sinisteradjective

   Synonyms:
   left, on the left hand

2. sinisteradjective

   Synonyms:
   unlucky, inauspicious, unfortunate, untoward, disastrous, injurious

3. sinisteradjective

   Synonyms:
   wrong, bad, evil, perverse, corrupt, wicked, sinful, criminal

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1. sinisteradjective

   Synonyms:
   left, unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding

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1. List of paraphrases for "sinister":

   ominous, sinistral, grim, eerie, insidious, macabre, evil, underhand, spooky, dark, gloomy

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1. Tony Beasley:

   Anyone can do that. I can do that with a dish in my back yard, basically, i don't know that there's anything particularly sinister or troubling about any part of China's space radio network in Argentina.

2. Judy Norton:

   My character Tara is a painter, a longer, an introvert, and then she starts experiencing concerning and disturbing phenomenon in her world… And she doesn’t know if she’s literally going crazy because her mother has, or if someone is stalking or manipulating her for some unknown, sinister reason… There was a lot of acting and emotional demands to it. And she’s also different from other characters I typically played. But I wanted that challenge to stretch myself outside of my comfort zone.

3. Said Boumedouha:

   The international image the authorities have attempted to project of the country as a progressive reformist state committed to human rights masks a far more sinister truth, four years on from the uprising, repression is widespread and rampant abuses by the security forces continue.

4. Lot Chakonza:

   Make man believe he is doing the right thing, with enough convincing powers, by any means so appropriate, then man, this being that was made superior by God, may do the most sinister thing,both imaginable and in real time

5. Hermann Hesse:

   People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.