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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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