Sinister - English meaning

adjective

Worrying or disturbing.

Usage examples:

Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate

verb

Make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger.

adjective

Threatening harm; menacing.

Usage examples:

Bill shot a baleful glance in her direction

adjective

Threatening to do something bad or to hurt someone

Usage examples:

He gave me a baleful look., his baleful influence

adjective

Of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.

Usage examples:

Black smoke

verb

Belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of african or australian aboriginal ancestry.

Usage examples:

Black adolescents of jamaican descent

noun

Another term for hamburger.

adjective

With little or no light.

Usage examples:

It's too dark to see much

noun

The absence of light in a place.

Usage examples:

Carolyn was sitting in the dark

adjective

Inducing feelings of anxiety or worry.

Usage examples:

He found jean's gaze disquieting

verb

Make (someone) worried or uneasy.

Usage examples:

World leaders are surely disquieted by the prospect of a global economic meltdown

adjective

Causing anxiety; worrying

Usage examples:

The sheer size of their armed forces is a disquieting factor for neighboring countries.

adjective

Causing anxiety; worrying.

Usage examples:

Disturbing unemployment figures

verb

Interfere with the normal arrangement or functioning of.

Usage examples:

Take the rollers out carefully so as not to disturb the curls too much

adjective

Making you feel worried or upset

Usage examples:

The article described the latest crime figures as "disturbing"., the following programme contains s…

adjective

Strange and frightening.

Usage examples:

An eerie green glow in the sky

adjective

Strange in a frightening and mysterious way

Usage examples:

Dust lay thick on the furniture, and cobwebs formed eerie patterns in the shadowy corners.

noun

(in the us) an elevated railway, especially that in chicago.

Usage examples:

I’ve been riding the el nearly every day for about 17 months now.

suffix

Forming nouns having or originally having a diminutive sense.

Usage examples:

Mantle

adjective

Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.

Usage examples:

A grim and forbidding building

verb

Refuse to allow (something).

Usage examples:

I can see why phones were forbidden

adjective

Making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying.

Usage examples:

A frightening experience

verb

Make (someone) afraid or anxious.

Usage examples:

The savagery of his thoughts frightened him

adjective

Making you feel fear

Usage examples:

A frightening situation, my car insurance payments are frightening., his heart rate changed frighte…

adjective

→  ill-fated

adjective

Not conducive to success; unpromising.

Usage examples:

Following this inauspicious start the british, outnumbered, withdrew

adjective

Suggesting that success is not likely

Usage examples:

After an inauspicious start, our team went on to win the game 30 to 24.

adjective

Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening.

Usage examples:

Our officers encountered menacing looks from teenagers

verb

Be a threat or possible danger to.

Usage examples:

Africa's elephants are still menaced by poaching

adjective

Making you think that someone is going to do something bad

Usage examples:

A menacing look/gesture

adjective

Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.

Usage examples:

There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead

adjective

Suggesting something unpleasant will happen

Usage examples:

An ominous silence, clouds had gathered ominously.

adjective

Of or like a portent; of momentous significance.

Usage examples:

This portentous year in canadian history

adjective

Too serious and trying to be very important

Usage examples:

The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing., the report…

adjective

Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

Usage examples:

Her mother had received a threatening letter

verb

State one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done.

Usage examples:

How dare you threaten me?

adjective

Expressing the possibility that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen

Usage examples:

Threatening skies meant a storm was coming., she received several threatening phone calls after her…

adjective

(of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable.

Usage examples:

His reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time

adjective

Not likely to be successful, or not showing any signs of success

Usage examples:

It may have seemed an unpropitious time for a general election., she assumed power in distinctly un…