insidious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
    — Strong and vigorous man as he looks, Livingstone has been for years the victim of a secret and insidious disease.
  2. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
    — Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
  3. Treacherous. nonstandard
    — The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.

词形变化

more insidious comparative most insidious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
insidiously insidiousness uninsidious

词源

From Middle French insidieux, from Latin īnsidiōsus (“cunning, artful, deceitful”), from īnsidiae (“a lying in wait, an ambush, artifice, stratagem”) + -ōsus, from īnsideō (“to sit in or on”), from in (“in, on”) + sedeō (“to sit”).
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