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Definition: SINISTROUS |
SINISTROUSAdjective1. Wrong; absurd; perverse. 2. Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral. |
Note: Sinistrous \Sin"is*trous\, adjective. [See Sinister.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sinistrality | Adjective: left-handed; sinister; sinistral, sinistrorsal, sinistrorse, sinistrous; |
Sullenness | Cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SINISTROUS |
| English words defined with "SINISTROUS": Sinistrously. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SINISTROUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | κακόσ (awful, bad, evil, ill, maleficent, mischievous, naughty, spiteful, vicious, wicked), αριστερόσ (left, left hand, sinister), δυσοίωνοσ (black, inauspicious, inauspiciousness, ominous, pessimistic, portentous, sinister). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inistroussay зловісний (augural, bodeful, dire, disastrous, fateful, grim, inauspicious, ominous, oracular, oraculous, portentous, sinister, unlucky), ліворукий (left handed, sinistral), лівий (left, left hand, leftist). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SINISTROUS" (pronounced 'Sin"is*trous'): Ambidextrous, Asymmetrous, Atrous, Auntrous, Barratrous, Blustrous, Dartrous, idolatrous, lustrous, Nitrous, Odometrous, Opiniastrous, Petrous, Saltpetrous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-n-o-r-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: ironists. | |
-3 letters: insists, ironist, nitrous, outsins, suitors, tsouris, tussors. | |
-4 letters: insist, intros, nitros, outsin, rosins, rousts, rutins, snorts, snouts, stours, suints, suitor, tsoris, tsuris, tussis, tussor. | |
-5 letters: intis, intro, irons, nisus, nitro, noirs, noris, ornis, ousts, riots, risus, rosin, rotis, roust, routs, ruins, runts, rusts, rutin, sinus, situs, snits, snort, snots, snout, sorns, sorts. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-n-o-r-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: suspirations. | |
+3 letters: excursionists, percussionist, perfusionists, strenuosities, subscriptions, superstitions. | |
+4 letters: circuitousness, nutritiousness, percussionists, propitiousness, resuscitations, superpositions, victoriousness. | |
+5 letters: antisubversions, atrabiliousness, constructivisms, constructivists, crosslinguistic, destructionists, flirtatiousness, illustriousness, industriousness, instructorships, meritoriousness, neuroscientists, obstructionisms, obstructionists, precipitousness, pressurizations, prestigiousness, presuppositions, repetitiousness, superscriptions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4E 49 53 54 52 4F 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. -. .. ... - .-. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001110 01001001 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I N I S T R O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 004E 0049 0053 0054 0052 004F 0055 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53434843535452495553 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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