Usually means: Left-handed or leftward; opposite dextral.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word sinistral:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinistral: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinistral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sinistral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sinistral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sinistral: Vocabulary.com
  6. sinistral: Wordnik
  7. sinistral: Wiktionary
  8. sinistral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sinistral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sinistral: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sinistral: Dictionary.com
  12. Sinistral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sinistral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sinistral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sinistral: Rhymezone
  16. Sinistral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sinistral: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sinistral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sinistral: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinistral: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sinistral: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sinistral: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sinistrals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sinistral)

adjective:  Of, facing, or on the left side.
adjective:  Left-handed.
adjective:  (zoology, of certain spiral shells) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed.
adjective:  (geology) Having left lateral fault movement.
noun:  (medicine) A left-handed individual.

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