contagious
1Contagious — may refer to: Contagious disease Contagious (song), a 2001 song by The Isley Brothers Contagious , a 2007 song from Avril Lavigne s album The Best Damn Thing Contagious (Sitti album), 2009 Contagious (Y T album), 1987 Contagious (Third Day album) …
2Contagious — Con*ta gious, a. [L. contagiosus: cf. F. contagieux.] 1. (Med.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. [1913 Webster] 2. Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as,… …
3contagious — A contagious disease is one transmitted by physical contact, as distinct from an infectious disease, which is transmitted by micro organisms in the air or in water. In figurative use, contagious and infectious overlap in modifying positive or… …
4contagious — [kən tā′jəs] adj. [OFr contagieus < LL contagiosus] 1. spread by direct or indirect contact; communicable: said of diseases 2. carrying, or liable to transmit, the causative agent of a contagious disease 3. for the care of contagious patients… …
5contagious — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (of a disease) spread by direct or indirect contact between people or organisms. 2) having a contagious disease. 3) (of an emotion, attitude, etc.) likely to spread to and affect others. DERIVATIVES contagiously adverb… …
6contagious — I adjective catching, communicable, contaminating, conveyable, epidemic, impartible, infectious, infective, pathogenic, pestiferous, spreading, transferable, transmissible, transmissive II index pestilent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C.… …
7contagious — late 14c., from O.Fr. contagieus (Mod.Fr. contagieux), from L.L. contagiosus, from L. contagio (see CONTACT (Cf. contact)) …
8contagious — *infectious, communicable, catching Analogous words: toxic, pestilential, pestilent, virulent, mephitic, mias mic (see POISONOUS) …
9contagious — [adj] communicable catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable; concept 314 Ant. noncommunicable …
10contagious — contagiously, adv. contagiousness, contagiosity /keuhn tay jee os i tee/, n. /keuhn tay jeuhs/, adj. 1. capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases. 2. carrying or spreading a contagious… …
