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sinigrin |
sinister |
sinister-handed |
sinisterly |
sinistrad |
sinistral
| sinistrality
| sinistrally
| sinistrin
| sinistrorsal
| sinistrorse
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sinistral
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sinistral has 2 senses
- sinistral(a = adj.all) Array - of or on the left; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost" Antonym: dextral
- sinistral(s = adj.all) Array - preferring to use left foot or hand or eye; "sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye" Derived form noun sinistrality1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sinistral, a.
- Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to
dextral . [1913 Webster] - Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sinistral, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 left-handed.
2 of or on the left.
3 (of a flat-fish) with the left side uppermost.
4 (of a spiral shell) with whorls rising to the left and not (as usually) to the right.
--adj.
1 left-handed.
2 of or on the left.
3 (of a flat-fish) with the left side uppermost.
4 (of a spiral shell) with whorls rising to the left and not (as usually) to the right.
Derivative
sinistrality n. sinistrally adv.
THESAURUS
sinistral
backhand, backhanded, circuitous, counterclockwise, deflectional, deviant, deviative, devious, digressive, divagational, divergent, excursive, indirect, larboard, left, left-hand, left-handed, left-wing, left-wingish, levorotatory, liberal, near, nigh, oblique, port, radical, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistromanual, sinistrorse, southpawROGET THESAURUS
sinistral
Sinistrality
N sinistrality, left, left hand, a gauche, sinister, nearside, larboard, port, left-handed, sinister, sinistral, sinistrorsal, sinistrorse, sinistrous, laevo-, sinistrally, sinistrously.
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