Word of the Day
insidious
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insidious
insidious
/ɪn ˈsɪ di əs/
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beguiling but harmful
insidious meaning(s)
- (adj) beguiling but harmful
- (adj) intended to entrap
- (adj) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
Synonym(s)
insidious usage(s)
- This insidious pandemic of obesity is slowly engulfing the entire world.
- During his Kenyan safari, David was more terrified of small, insidious creatures like bugs, scorpions, snakes than of big cats.
- insidiously insidiously in a harmfully insidious manner
- insidiousness insidiousness subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease)
- insight insight /ˈɪn ˌsaɪt/ ? clear or deep perception of a situation
- insightful insightful /ˈɪn ˌsaɪt fəl/ ? exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
- insightfulness insightfulness shrewdness shown by keen insight
- insignia insignia /ɪn ˈsɪɡ ni ə/ ? a badge worn to show official position
- insignia of rank insignia of rank an insignia worn on a military uniform
- insignificance insignificance /ˌɪn sɪɡ ˈnjɪ fɪ kəns/ ? the quality of having little or no significance
- insignificant insignificant /ˌɪn sɪɡ ˈnjɪ fɪ kənt/ ? not worthy of notice
- insignificantly insignificantly in an insignificant manner
- insincere insincere /ˌɪn sɪn ˈsɪr/ ? lacking sincerity
- insincerely insincerely without sincerity
- insincerity insincerity /ˌɪn sɪn ˈsɛ rɪ tɪ/ ? the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
- insinuate insinuate /ɪn ˈsɪn ju eɪt/ ? introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner
- insinuating insinuating /ɪn ˈsɪn ju eɪ tɪŋ/ ? calculated to please or gain favor
- insinuatingly insinuatingly in an insinuating manner
- insinuation insinuation /ɪn ˌsɪn ju ˈeɪ ʃən/ ? an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
- insipid insipid /ɪn ˈsɪ pɪd/ ? lacking taste or flavor or tang
- insipidity insipidity /ˌɪn sɪ ˈpɪ dɪ tɪ/ ? extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
- insipidly insipidly in an insipid manner
- insipidness insipidness extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
- insist insist /ɪn ˈsɪst/ ? be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
- insistence insistence /ɪn ˈsɪ stəns/ ? continual and persistent demands