different between sinister vs venomous
sinister
English
Alternative forms
- sinistre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French sinistra (“left”), from Latin sinestra (“left hand”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?n?st?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?n?st?/
- Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden.
Adjective
sinister (comparative more sinister, superlative most sinister)
- Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
- All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
- Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
- sinister influences
- the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
- Of the left side.
- 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.’
- 1911, Saki, ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
- (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.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
- 1667, Robert South, The Practice of Religion Enforced by Reason
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
Antonyms
- (of the right side): dexter
- (heraldry): dexter
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- insister, resistin, sinistre
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
sinister (comparative sinisterder, superlative sinisterst)
- sinister
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zi?n?st?/
Adjective
sinister (comparative sinisterer, superlative am sinistersten)
- sinister
Declension
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *senisteros, of unknown origin, but possibly from a euphemism from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Sanskrit ??????? (san?y?n, “more useful, more advantageous”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /si?nis.ter/, [s???n?s?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /si?nis.ter/, [si?nist??r]
Adjective
sinister (feminine sinistra, neuter sinistrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- left
- Synonyms: laevus, scaevus
- Antonym: dexter
- perverse, bad; or adverse, hostile
- 1st BC, Virgilius
- mores sinistri
- arboribus Notus sinister
- 1st BC, Virgilius
- (religion) auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)
- 1st BC, Virgilius
- sinistra cornix, good omen
- 2nd century, Apuleius
- sinistro pede profectus, started with bad omen
- 1st BC, Virgilius
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Descendants
References
- sinister in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sinister in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Castiglioni-Mariotti, IL
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venomous
English
Etymology
From Middle English venemous, venymous, from Anglo-Norman venimus, from venin. Cf. Latin ven?n?sus. Equivalent to venom +? -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?n?m?s/
Adjective
venomous (comparative more venomous, superlative most venomous)
- Full of venom.
- Toxic; poisonous.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- More venemous and much more virulent
Then any poy?oned tode, or any ?erpent.
- More venemous and much more virulent
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Noxious; evil.
- Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
- Producing venom (a toxin usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food.
- powerful
Usage notes
See poisonous#Usage notes.
Synonyms
- noxious
- poisonous
- toxic
Antonyms
- non-venomous
Translations
References
- “venomous” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- venomous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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