Infectious

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[adj] easily spread; "fear is exceedlingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
[adj] caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"

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Synonyms

catching, communicable, contagious, contaminating, contractable, corrupting, infective, septic, transmissible, transmittable

Antonyms

noninfectious

Related Terms

catching, communicable, contagious, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, infective, inoculable, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestil