insidious

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. beguiling but harmful
- insidious pleasures
• Similar to:
seductive
• Derivationally related forms:
insidiousness
2. intended to entrap
• Similar to:
dangerous, unsafe
• Derivationally related forms:
insidiousness
3. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
- glaucoma is an insidious disease
- a subtle poison
• Syn:
pernicious, subtle
• Similar to:
harmful
• Derivationally related forms:
perniciousness (for: pernicious), insidiousness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pernicious, subtle