sinister
US: /ˈsɪnɪstɝ/
UK: /sˈɪnɪstɐ/
UK: /sˈɪnɪstɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
sinister /'sinistə/
- tính từ
- gở, mang điểm xấu
- ác, độc ác, hung hãn, nham hiểm; đầy sát khí (vẻ mặt)
- a sinister design: một kế hoạch nham hiểm
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) (+ to) tai hoạ cho, tai hại cho
- (đùa cợt) trái, tả
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
seeming evil or dangerous; making you think sth bad will happen: There was something cold and sinister about him. + There is another, more sinister, possibility. + We needn't assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 fateful, inauspicious, unfavourable, foreboding, threatening, menacing, minacious, minatory or minatorial, portentous, ominous, unpropitious, disastrous, dark, gloomy:
There was a sinister meaning in the look he gave her.
2 evil, bad, corrupt, base, malevolent, malignant, malign, harmful, pernicious, treacherous, nefarious, wicked, diabolic(al), baleful, villainous, insidious, sneaky, furtive, underhand(ed):
The poor girl fell under the sinister influence of a real-life Svengali.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look, seem, sound | find sth
ADV.
downright, extremely, really, very | almost | faintly, rather, slightly, somewhat, vaguely
I found his silence rather sinister.
| somehow
Concise English dictionary
'sɪnɪstə(r)
adj.
+threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
+stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
+on or starting from the wearer's left
