sinister

sinister
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. ominous, unlucky, portentous; left; evil, bad; unpropitious, baleful, injurious; ill-starred; ^nalicious, harmful, corrupt. See badness.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. evil, bad, corrupt, perverse, dishonest, inauspicious, menacing, foreboding, threatening, ominous, disastrous, malign, malignant, hurtful, harmful, injurious, baneful, baleful, obnoxious, dire, woeful, disastrous, pernicious, mischievous, deleterious, poisonous, adverse, unlucky, unfortunate, unfavorable, unpropitious; see also wicked 1 , 2 .
Ant. fortunate*, lucky, opportune.
Syn.- sinister applies to that which can be interpreted as presaging imminent danger or evil [ a sinister smile ] ; baleful refers to that which is menacing to the degree of being deadly, destructive, pernicious, etc. [ a baleful influence ] ; malign is applied to that which is regarded as having an inherent tendency toward evil or destruction [ a malign doctrine ]
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
threatening, ominous, inauspicious, portentious, menacing, black, malignant, malevolent, villainous, bad, evil, wicked, diabolic, satanic.
ANT.: good, auspicious, divine
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Strongly suggestive of great harm, menace, or evil: baleful, malign. See WARN.

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