contagious
adjective
1 contagious
Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another.
Roget 270: transferred etc. v.; drifted, movable; portable, portative†; mailable [U.S.]; contagious.
2 contagious
of disease Capable of being transmitted by infection.
synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable.
Roget 657: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific†, morbiferous†; mephitic, septic, azotic†, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; ... show more
Moby thesaurus: assignable, catching, communicable, conductive, consignable, conveyable, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, expressable, impartable, infectious, infective, inoculable, interchangeable ... show more.
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