infectious

Meaning

  1. Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
  2. Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
  3. Spreading quickly from one person to another.
  4. (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.

Synonyms

contagious
C1
catching
B2
infective
communicable
transmissible
infected
B2
transmittable
zymotic
contractable
communicate
B2
mucilaginous
pasty
25k
pestiferous
pestilent
septic
C2
spreading
C1
sticky
C1
tacky
C2
transmissibility
viscid
viscous
45k

communicable disease

smittling

contagiosus

adherent

plague pest pestilence

adhesive
25k
ancestral
C2
catchy
C2

contagious disease

epidemic
C2
gluey
glutinous
gummy
22k
isolation
C1
Translations

infettivo
infectieux
contagioso
ansteckend
aanstekelijk
infeccioso
contagieux
besmettelijk
contagioso
infecciós
infektiös
verpestend
contagioso

κολλητικός

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈfɛk.ʃəs/
Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin īnfectiōsus. By surface analysis, infect + -ious.

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