insidious, pernicious, subtle
(adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; “glaucoma is an insidious disease”; “a subtle poison”
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
(adjective) exceedingly harmful
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pernicious (comparative more pernicious, superlative most pernicious)
Causing much harm in a subtle way.
Causing death or injury; deadly.
Synonym: attery
• superionic
Source: Wiktionary
Per*ni"cious, a. Etym: [L. pernix, -icis.]
Definition: Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.
Per*ni"cious, a. Etym: [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.]
Definition: Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.
Syn.
– Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous.
– Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
