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Contagious
| contagious abortion
| contagious disease
| contagiously
| contagiousness
| contagium
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Contagious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Contagious has 2 senses
- contagious(s = adj.all) Array - easily diffused or spread as from one person to another; "a contagious grin" Derived form noun contagion3
- contagious(s = adj.all) catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable - (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection; Array Derived forms noun contagion2, noun contagion1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Contagious, a. [L. contagiosus: cf. F. contagieux.].
- Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. [1913 Webster]
- Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air. [1913 Webster]
- Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. [1913 Webster]"His genius rendered his courage more contagious." [1913 Webster]"The spirit of imitation is contagious."
Syn. -- Contagious, Infectious.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Contagious, adj.
1 a (of a person) likely to transmit disease by contact. b (of a disease) transmitted in this way.
2 (of emotions, reactions, etc.) likely to affect others (contagious enthusiasm).
1 a (of a person) likely to transmit disease by contact. b (of a disease) transmitted in this way.
2 (of emotions, reactions, etc.) likely to affect others (contagious enthusiasm).
Idiom
contagious abortion brucellosis of cattle.
Derivative
contagiously adv. contagiousness n.
Etymology
ME f. LL contagiosus (as contagion)
THESAURUS
Contagious
assignable, catching, communicable, conductive, consignable, conveyable, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, expressable, impartable, infectious, infective, inoculable, interchangeable, mailable, malign, malignant, mephitic, metathetic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, movable, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, portable, portative, removable, sporadic, spreading, taking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transferable, transfusable, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, zymoticROGET THESAURUS
Contagious
Insalubrity
N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.Transference
N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.
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