Usually means: Gradual and subtle, but harmful.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word insidious:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. insidious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. insidious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insidious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insidious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insidious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insidious, insidious: Wordnik
  7. insidious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insidious: Wiktionary
  9. insidious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insidious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insidious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. insidious: Dictionary.com
  13. insidious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. insidious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Insidious (Nightrage album), Insidious (film), Insidious (film series), Insidious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Insidious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. insidious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. insidious: Rhymezone
  19. Insidious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. insidious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. insidious: Free Dictionary
  22. insidious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. insidious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. insidious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insidious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insidious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Insidious: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. insidious: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  6. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insidious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See insidiously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
adjective:  Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
adjective:  (nonstandard) Treacherous.

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