Search Result for "infectious":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. caused by infection or capable of causing infection;
- Example: "viruses and other infective agents"
- Example: "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
[syn: infectious, infective]
2. easily spread;
- Example: "fear is exceedingly infectious children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell;
3. of or relating to infection;
- Example: "infectious hospital"
- Example: "infectious disease"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infectious \In*fec"tious\, a. [Cf. F. infectieux.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious water; infectious vices. [1913 Webster] Where the infectious pestilence. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. [1913 Webster] Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. --Kent. [1913 Webster] 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. [1913 Webster] The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious. --W. Black. Syn: See Contagious. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
