sinister

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
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Xem thêm: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening, black, dark



sinister

Từ điển Collocation

sinister adj.

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

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening

    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

  • 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; black, dark
  • on or starting from the wearer's left

    bar sinister

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: bad corrupt crooked dishonest evil fraudulent wrong