Contagious
[kən'teɪdʒəs] or [kən'tedʒəs]
Definition
(adj.) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another; 'a contagious grin' .
Typist: Louis--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
(a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
(a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Infectious, catching.[2]. Pestilential, pestiferous, poisonous, deadly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred,transmitted, infections
ANT:Sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic
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Examples
- The intense enthusiasm of this pioneer beekeeper was contagious and resulted in many taking up beekeeping. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A sickness of the soul, contagious even to my physical mechanism, came over me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Naturally he wouldn't, under those contagious circumstances. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That the plague was not what is commonly called contagious, like the scarlet fever, or extinct small-pox, was proved. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The mass of the soap does not come in contact with the skin, and hence the spread of contagious skin diseases is lessened. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Dishes used by consumptives, and persons suffering from contagious diseases, can be made harmless by thorough washing in thick suds of almost boiling water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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