Dextral vs. Sinister — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dextral and Sinister
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Dextral
Of, relating to, or located on the right side; right.
Sinister
Suggesting or threatening harm or evil
A sinister smile.
Dextral
Right-handed.
Sinister
Causing or intending harm or evil; wicked
A sinister conspiracy.
Dextral
(Zoology) Of or relating to a gastropod shell that coils clockwise and has its aperture to the right when facing the observer with the apex upward.
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Sinister
Portending misfortune or disaster; ominous
Sinister storm clouds.
Dextral
Of or pertaining to the right side
Sinister
Attended by or causing misfortune or disaster
"The day has passed without any sinister accident" (John Quincy Adams).
Dextral
Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.
Sinister
(Archaic) On the left side; left.
Dextral
Of or on the right;
A dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer
A dextral flatfish lies with the right eye uppermost
Sinister
(Heraldry) Situated on or being the side of a shield on the wearer's left and the observer's right.
Dextral
Preferring to use right foot or hand or eye;
Dextral individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye
Sinister
Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
Sinister
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
Sinister influences
The sinister atmosphere of the crypt
Sinister
(archaic) Of the left side.
Sinister
(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
Sinister
(obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
Sinister
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; - opposed to dexter, or right.
My mother's bloodRuns on the dexter cheek, and this sinisterBounds in my father's
Sinister
Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; - the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
All the several ills that visit earth,Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
Sinister
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
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.
Sinister
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
Sinister
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
Sinister
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
Sinister
On or starting from the wearer's left;
Bar sinister
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