Sinister vs Threatening - What's the difference?

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Sinister is a related term of threatening.

As adjectives the difference between sinister and threatening

is that sinister is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ) while threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

As a verb threatening is

As a noun threatening is

an act of threatening; a threat.

sinister

English

Alternative forms

* sinistre (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister, bar sinister ).

* Ben Jonson

All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.

*'>citation

Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.

sinister influences

the sinister atmosphere of the crypt

Of the left side.

* Shakespeare

Here on his sinister cheek.

* Shakespeare

My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.

* 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis :

Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’

(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

Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.

* South

He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.

* Sir Walter Scott

He read in their looks sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.

Antonyms

* (of the right side): dexter * (heraldry): dexter

Derived terms

* bar sinister * baton sinister * bend sinister * sinister aspect * sinister base * sinister chief * sinistral

Anagrams

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threatening

English

Alternative forms

* threatning (obsolete)

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

Derived terms

* life-threatening * nonthreatening, non-threatening * threateningly * threateningness * unthreatening

Noun

(en noun)

An act of threatening; a threat.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:

And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges , and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.

* Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray

The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently