Usually means: Threatening or suggesting evil, harm.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word sinister:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinister: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sinister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sinister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sinister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sinister: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sinister, sinister: Wordnik
  7. sinister: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sinister: Wiktionary
  9. sinister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sinister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sinister: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sinister: Dictionary.com
  13. sinister: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sinister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sinister (band), Sinister (film), Sinister: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sinister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sinister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sinister: Rhymezone
  19. sinister, sinister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sinister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sinister: Free Dictionary
  22. sinister: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. sinister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sinister: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. sinister: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. sinister: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Sinister: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinister: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinister: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sinister: Medical dictionary

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

(Note: See sinisterly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
adjective:  Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
adjective:  (archaic) Of the left side.
adjective:  (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
adjective:  (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

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