Infectious

What do we mean by infectious?

Capable of causing infection. adjective

Capable of being transmitted by infection. adjective

Capable of transmitting a disease; contagious. adjective

Spreading or tending to spread from one to another. adjective

Communicable by infection; easily diffused or spread from person to person or from place to place, as a disease, a moral influence, or a mental condition: specifically applied to diseases which are capable of being communicated from one to another, or which pervade certain places, attacking persons there, independently of any contact with those already sick. Infectious diseases include contagious and miasmatic diseases.

Capable of communicating infection; that infects, taints, or corrupts; contaminating: as, infectious clothing; infectious air; an infectious vice.

In law, capable of contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure or forfeiture.

Synonyms Catching, communicable.

Contaminating, poisoning, defiling.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic adjective

Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing. adjective

Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. adjective

Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated. adjective

Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed. adjective

Able to infect others. adjective

Spreading quickly from one person to another. adjective

Memorable and invoking excitement or interest. adjective

Caused by infection or capable of causing infection adjective

Of or relating to infection adjective

Easily spread adjective

(of an illness) Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed.

(of a person) Able to infect others.

(of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.

Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.

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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word infectious:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe infectious:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective infectious:
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Words that sound like infectious:
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