word-vault/dist/data/cards/si/sinister.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "sinister",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "seeming evil or dangerous; making you think something bad will happen",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was something cold and sinister about him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is another, more sinister, possibility."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We needn’t assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found his silence rather sinister."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a sinister undertone in his words."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪnɪstə(r)/",
                "audio": "si/sinister/sinister__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪnɪstər/",
                "audio": "si/sinister/sinister__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘malicious, underhand’): from Old French sinistre or Latin sinister ‘left’."
}