insidious
adjectiveHow many syllables in insidious?
There are 4 syllables in the word insidious.How to pronounce insidious:
Definition of insidious:
- insidious (adjective):
- having a gradual and cumulative effect subtle
- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way.
- working in a subtle or apparently harmless way, but nevertheless dangerous or deadly
Synonyms for insidious:
ambiguous
artful
artificial
beguiling
confounding
crafty
crooked
cunning
deceitful
deceiving
deceptive
deluding
delusive
delusory
designing
devious
disingenuous
distracting
duplicitous
fallacious
false
fast
foxy
fraudulent
guileful
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Antonyms for insidious:
above board
above-board
aboveboard
accepting
apparent
artless
as clear as day
as green as grass
as plain as a pikestaff
as plain as the nose on your face
axiomatic
bald
bald-faced
barefaced
behaved
believing
beyond doubt
beyond question
blatant
blinding
bluff
blunt
bold
bright-line
broad
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- imperious
- Oriana
- reincarnation
- gesticulate
- Galileo
- eviscerate
- emblematic
- emancipate
- diphyletic
- captivated
- antipasto
- Violeta
- unsupported
- unerringly
- sarcophagus
- regretfully
- amphibian
- farinaceous
- cursorily
- algaroba
- arithmetic
- undistinguished
- disdainfully
- acclamation
- unappealing
- paronymous
- overwhelmed
- misunderstand
- Hungarian
- dejectedly
- amalgamate
- offhandedly
- safeguarded
- quinceanera
- adultery
- magnolia
- indecently
- potato blight
- ingenuous
- mariposa
- disorganized
- deviously
- indignity
- compilation
- anticlimax
- undisciplined
- predictable
- Demetrius
- cavalier
- carelessness
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