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Insidious

  1. adjective

    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

    glaucoma is an insidious disease

    Similar: pernicious, subtle

  2. adjective

    beguiling but harmful

    insidious pleasures

  3. adjective

    intended to entrap

Word family

insidiousness · insidiously

Do not confuse with

Assiduous

Words that mean the same

Harmful

Appears on

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Word parts

-ious