Brooding vs Sinister - What's the difference?
brooding | sinister |
(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
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Inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister, bar sinister ).
* Ben Jonson
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Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
Of the left side.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
(obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
* Francis Bacon
* South
* Sir Walter Scott
As adjectives the difference between brooding and sinister
is that brooding is (of a bird) broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them while sinister is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ).As a verb brooding
is .As a noun brooding
is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.brooding
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation
sinister
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Alternative forms
* sinistre (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
- sinister influences
- the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
- Here on his sinister cheek.
- My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.
- Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
- He read in their looks sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.
