insidious 音标拼音: [ɪns'ɪdiəs]
a . 隐伏的,阴险的,狡猾的
隐伏的,阴险的,狡猾的
insidious adj 1 :
beguiling but harmful ; "
insidious pleasures "
2 :
intended to entrap 3 :
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way ;
"
glaucoma is an insidious disease "; "
a subtle poison " [
synonym :
{
insidious }, {
pernicious }, {
subtle }]
Insidious \
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a . [
L .
insidiosus ,
fr .
insidiae an ambush ,
fr .
insidere to sit in ;
pref .
in -
sedere to sit :
cf .
F .
insidieux .
See {
Sit }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
Lying in wait ;
watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap ;
deceitful ;
sly ;
treacherous ; --
said of persons ;
as ,
the insidious foe . "
The insidious witch ." --
Cowper .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Intended to entrap ;
characterized by treachery and deceit ;
as ,
insidious arts .
[
1913 Webster ]
The insidious whisper of the bad angel . --
Hawthorne .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Acting or proceeding unobserved or in a seemingly harmless manner ,
but slowly or eventually doing great damage ;
as ,
an insidious disease ;
an insidious plot .
[
PJC ]
{
Insidious disease } (
Med .),
a disease existing ,
without marked symptoms ,
but ready to become active upon some slight occasion ;
a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is .
Syn :
Crafty ;
wily ;
artful ;
sly ;
designing ;
guileful ;
circumventive ;
treacherous ;
deceitful ;
deceptive . --
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adv . -- {
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n .
[
1913 Webster ]
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "
insidious ":
Byzantine ,
Machiavellian ,
Machiavellic ,
acute ,
amoral ,
arch ,
artful ,
astute ,
cagey ,
calculating ,
canny ,
chiseling ,
clever ,
collusive ,
conscienceless ,
corrupt ,
corrupted ,
covinous ,
crafty ,
criminal ,
crooked ,
cunning ,
cute ,
dangerous ,
dark ,
deceitful ,
deep ,
deep -
laid ,
designing ,
devious ,
diplomatic ,
dishonest ,
dishonorable ,
doubtful ,
dubious ,
evasive ,
false ,
falsehearted ,
feline ,
felonious ,
finagling ,
fishy ,
foxy ,
fraudulent ,
furtive ,
gradual ,
guileful ,
ill -
got ,
ill -
gotten ,
immoral ,
indirect ,
ingenious ,
inventive ,
knowing ,
not kosher ,
pawky ,
perfidious ,
perilous ,
politic ,
questionable ,
ready ,
resourceful ,
rotten ,
scheming ,
serpentine ,
shady ,
shameless ,
sharp ,
shifty ,
shrewd ,
sinister ,
slick ,
slippery ,
sly ,
smooth ,
snaky ,
sneaky ,
sophistical ,
stealthy ,
strategic ,
subtile ,
subtle ,
supple ,
surreptitious ,
suspicious ,
tactical ,
treacherous ,
trickish ,
tricksy ,
tricky ,
two -
faced ,
unconscienced ,
unconscientious ,
unconscionable ,
underhand ,
underhanded ,
unethical ,
unprincipled ,
unsavory ,
unscrupulous ,
unstraightforward ,
vulpine ,
wary ,
wily ,
without remorse ,
without shame
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