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What is "contagious" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does contagious mean in English? Meaning of contagious definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "contagious" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "contagious": easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

Adjective

  • Meaning: easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
  • Example: a contagious grin
  • Synonyms: contagious
  • Similar: infectious

    • Meaning of "contagious": (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
  • Synonyms: catching communicable contagious contractable transmissible transmittable
  • Similar: infectious
  • Adjective: Of a disease, easily transmitted to others. The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!Of a fashion, laughter, etc., easily passed on to others. Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.Of a person, having a disease that can be transmitted to another person by touch. They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.

    • Synonyms:

    deadly, spreading, infectious, endemic, poisonous, catching, epidemic, pestiferous, pestilential, taking, epizootic, impartible, inoculable, transmissible, transmittable,

    Antonyms:

    harmless, noncommunicable,

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    contagious in English: contagious
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