Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. 
 of or on the left; 
- Example: "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"- Example: "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost"2. 
 preferring to use left foot or hand or eye; 
- Example: "sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sinistral \Sin"is*tral\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left;
      sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
      [1913 Webster]
   2. (Zool.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising
      to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
      [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
counterclockwise \coun"ter*clock"wise\ adj. & adv.
   in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a
   clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; --
   of rotatory motion or spiral direction. Opposite of
   clockwise, or right-handed
   Note: [Narrower terms: sinistral levororotary,
         levorotatory]
   Syn: left-handed.
        [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sinistral
    adj 1: of or on the left; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the
           apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the
           observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye
           uppermost" [ant: dextral]
    2: preferring to use left foot or hand or eye; "sinistral
       individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "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