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| Explanation of sinister (adjective) forms: sinister; more sinister; most sinister; less sinister; least sinister threatening and referring to evil and darkness Sample of sinister The best horror movies include an actor that actually looks sinister. We, the democracies, will still be faced by totalitarianism, in a form less clumsy but no less aggressive, and even more sinister in its ruthless unexhausted might.
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| Explanation of auspicious (adjective) forms: more auspicious; most auspicious; less auspicious; least auspicious favorable (e. g. circumstances) Sample of auspicious The merger, when looked at carefully, was in fact auspicious for both parties. Although the numerous rivers flowing from the Carpathian Mountains offered Conrad abundant lines of defense against any Russian invasion, it seemed to him that the sooner the Austrians attacked, the more auspicious the prospects, since they would shortly be heavily outnumbered.
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| Explanation of benevolent (adjective) forms: more benevolent; most benevolent; less benevolent; least benevolent regarding kind or charitable acts; organizing benefits for charities Sample of benevolent He was always a generous; benevolent man. The subject of this first version of the poem is the mainly benevolent influence of Nature in forming the imagination of the poet in childhood and early youth.
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| Explanation of sober (adjective) forms: sober; more sober; most sober; less sober; least sober serious Sample of sober His wife's typical smiling face held a sober look and he wondered what she had heard on the telephone.
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| Explanation of stalwart (adjective) forms: stalwart; more stalwart; most stalwart; less stalwart; least stalwart strong and robust Sample of stalwart The stalwart captain marched with his troops for two straight days.
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| Explanation of illicit (adjective) forms: more illicit; most illicit; less illicit; least illicit illegal; unlawful Sample of illicit She got caught receiving illicit funds and her career is over.
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| Explanation of precise (adjective) forms: precise; more precise; most precise; less precise; least precise detailed; exact Sample of precise One has to be precise when installing explosives in buildings. As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century, where symbols would stand for things and not words, engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study.
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| Explanation of pragmatic (adjective) forms: pragmatic; more pragmatic; most pragmatic; less pragmatic; least pragmatic realistic; practical Sample of pragmatic The woman looked only for pragmatic solutions that gained her respect from her colleagues. Successive generations of politicians, civil servants, judges and philosophers reared on a meagre intellectual diet of pragmatic utilitarianism and positivism had firmly rejected these ideas as a basis for ensuring constitutional government and citizens' rights.
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| Explanation of ghastly (adjective) forms: more ghastly; most ghastly; less ghastly; least ghastly frightful (e.g. appearance); unpleasant Sample of ghastly The sick man had a ghastly appearance; as if he had come straight out of a horror movie.
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| Explanation of lofty (adjective) forms: lofty; loftier; loftiest; less lofty; least lofty very high; grand Sample of lofty He sets lofty goals, but doesn't work towards them. We were taken to the main hall, a long lofty chamber dominated by a hammer-beamed roof with an oriel window at one end depicting the Lamb of God carrying a standard.
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