sinistral

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sin=is=tral

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.

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, southpaw

ROGET THESAURUS

sinistral

Sinistrality

N sinistrality, left, left hand, a gauche, sinister, nearside, larboard, port, left-handed, sinister, sinistral, sinistrorsal, sinistrorse, sinistrous, laevo-, sinistrally, sinistrously.