infectious | English to English Dictionary

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infectious

(/I/n'f/E/k/S//@/s )

easily spread(adj.all)

Example:
Fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders.

Antonym:
noninfectious

source: wordnet30
of or relating to infection(adj.pert)

Example:
Infectious hospital.
Infectious disease.

source: wordnet30
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.(adjective)

source: webster1913

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