Insidious (Mephisto Walz album)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"Glaucoma is an insidious disease"
"A subtle poison"
(2) Intended to entrap
(3) Beguiling but harmful
"Insidious pleasures"
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Etymology
< < < < + ; see session.
Adjective
- Producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
- He was unaware that an insidious cancer was consuming him.
- Intending to entrap.
- Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch's insidious gingerbread house.
- Treacherous.
- The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
- Describing a disease which worsens with few or no symptoms to signal its gravity.
- Describing a disease with subtle or gradual onset. Patients with insidious diseases oftentimes cannot point out a time when the symptoms began.