About The Word Infectious
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Infectious
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What's The Definition Of Infectious?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Infectious: catching | communicable | contagious | contaminating | contractable | corrupting | infective | septic | transmissible | transmittable Related Terms | Find terms related to Infectious: catching | communicable | contagious | deadly | destructive | endemic | envenomed | epidemial | epidemic | epiphytotic | epizootic | infective | inoculable | irresistible | malign | malignant | mephitic | miasmal | miasmatic | miasmic | noxious | pandemic | pestiferous | pestilent | pestilential | poisonous | sporadic | spreading | sympathetic | taking | toxic | toxicant | toxiferous | transmissible | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | virulent | zymotic See Also | Infectious In Webster's Dictionary \In*fec"tious\, a. [Cf. F. infectieux.]
1. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused
by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious
fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious
vices.
Where the infectious pestilence. --Shak.
2. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate;
vitiating; demoralizing.
It [the court] is necessary for the polishing of
manners . . . but it is infectious even to the best
morals to live always in it. --Dryden.
3. (Law) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure
and forfeiture.
Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious
nature. --Kent.
4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic;
readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious.
--W. Black.
Syn: See {Contagious}.
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