Antonyms for sinister
ˈsɪn ə stərsin·is·ter

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1. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

2. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

3. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

4. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

5. sinisteradjective

   Antonyms:
   dexter

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. sinister

   Antonyms:
   lucky, fortunate, propitious, auspicious, favorable, right, fair, open, honest, honorable, attractive, winning, engaging, assuring, frank

   Synonyms:
   unlucky, inauspicious, ill-omened, portentous, disastrous, unfavorable, wrong, unfair, underhanded, evil, foul, dishonest, dishonorable, forbidding, repulsive, lowering

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1. • Heraldry

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.8 / 8 votes

1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

   threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "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"

   Antonyms:
   dextral, good, unalarming

   Synonyms:
   grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, heavy, minatory, dour, ominous, menacing, ill, forbidding, threatening

2. black, dark, sinisteradjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   good, unalarming, dextral

   Synonyms:
   blackened, ominous, sullen, bootleg, black-market, disgraceful, calamitous, forbidding, dismal, dark, moody, non-white, disconsolate, threatening, coloured, glum, fatal, dark-skinned, black, fateful, baleful, smuggled, inglorious, menacing, dim, pitch-dark, glowering, minatory, obscure, sour, pitch-black, grim, mordant, drab, benighted, contraband, shameful, saturnine, disastrous, smutty, ignominious, sorry, gloomy, morose, bleak, dingy, dreary, dour, drear, opprobrious, minacious, blue

3. sinisteradjective

   on or starting from the wearer's left

   "bar sinister"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, good, dextral

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, dark, minacious, baleful, minatory, black, menacing, threatening, ominous

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1. sinisteradjective

   Synonyms:
   left, unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding

How to use sinister in a sentence?

1. Jake Auchincloss:

   This is just chilling to me. It is tapping into millennia-old antisemitic tropes about nefarious Jewish wealth, control, conspiracy, media connections and political string-pulling, to name names and keep lists, which has a very sinister history in Judaism, in terms of how we are targeted, is very irresponsible. [The group] needs to take this down and apologize.

2. Judy Norton:

   And then she starts experiencing concerning and disturbing phenomenon in her world… And she doesn’t know if she’s literally going crazy because her mother has, or if someone is stalking or manipulating her for some unknown, sinister reason… There was a lot of acting and emotional demands to it. And she’s also different from other characters I typically played. But I wanted that challenge to stretch myself outside of my comfort zone. i guess at my core, I’m an artist.

3. Jeff Dennis:

   It would be very hard, as a user, to see through some sort of phishing campaign when they're using information that you thought was very private to you, such as information that would be found on Facebook in your bio section, particularly, when you combine it with location information, you can see how bad guys would start to use this information in a very sinister but effective way.

4. Anthony Bourdain:

   I'm sure I'm not alone here. Were clowns ever funny? No. Of course not. They were always sinister figures, disguising their homicidal intentions under thick make-up, all the while their crawl spaces and chest freezers were brimming with Cub Scout parts.

5. Bill Clinton:

   I don't think there's anything sinister in trying to get wealthy people in countries that are seriously involved in development to spend their money wisely in a way that helps poor people and lifts them up.

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