sinistre

sinistre (comparative more sinistre, superlative most sinistre)

1. Obsolete form of sinister.

• insister, resistin, sinister

Borrowed from Latin sinister.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [siˈnis.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [siˈnis.tɾe]
• Homophone: sinistra (Balearic, Central)

sinistre (feminine sinistra, masculine and feminine plural sinistres)

1. left (the opposite of right)

   Synonym: esquerre

   Antonyms: dret, destre

2. sinister (inauspicious, ominous, unlucky)

• ensinistrar
• sinistrament

sinistre m (plural sinistres)

1. disaster, accident

• “sinistre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sinistre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sinistre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sinistre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin sinister, whence also French senestre, an inherited doublet.

• IPA^(key): /si.nistʁ/

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sinistre (plural sinistres)

1. scary
2. sinister, ominous

sinistre m (plural sinistres)

1. accident, incident
2. disaster

• “sinistre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• insister, tisserin

sinistre f

1. plural of sinistra

• nitrisse, sentirsi

• IPA^(key): [siˈnis.tre]

sinistre

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of sinistru