infectious

  • 121infectious — Synonyms and related words: catching, communicable, contagious, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, infective, inoculable, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic,… …

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  • 122infectious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. contagious (see transfer). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. catching, communicable, transmissible, irresistible; see catching , contagious , dangerous 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. catching,… …

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  • 123infectious — in fec·tious || ɪn fekʃəs adj. causing infection; contagious, can be passed from one person to another; contaminating, polluting …

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  • 124infectious — a. 1. Contagious, pestilential, pestiferous, catching. 2. Contaminating, corrupting, vitiating, poisoning, defiling, polluting …

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  • 125infectious — adj 1. communicable, contagious, catching, spreading, infective, transmissible, transferable. 2. pestilent, baneful, malign, pestiferous, morbific, morbiferous; noisome, Dial. plaguy, germ laden, zymotic, inoculable; poisonous, venomous, deadly,… …

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  • 126infectious — in·fec·tious …

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  • 127infectious — adj. 1 infecting with disease. 2 (of a disease) liable to be transmitted by air, water, etc. 3 (of emotions etc.) apt to spread; quickly affecting others. Derivatives: infectiously adv. infectiousness n …

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  • 128infectious hepatitis — noun Date: circa 1941 hepatitis A …

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