Synonyms for contagious
kənˈteɪ dʒəscon·ta·gious

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1. contagiousadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

2. contagiousadjective

   Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.

   The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!

   Synonyms:
   catching, infectious

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

3. contagiousadjective

   Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

4. contagiousadjective

   They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. contagious

   Synonyms:
   catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections

   Antonyms:
   sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. contagiousadjective

   easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

   "a contagious grin"

   Synonyms:
   transmittable, transmissible, contractable, catching, communicable

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

2. catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Synonyms:
   inherited, genetic, communicable, transmittable, ancestral, catching, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

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1. contagiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   infectious, catching

2. contagiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   pestilential, pestiferous, poisonous, deadly

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1. contagiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   communicable, infectious, pestilential, pestiferous

   Antonyms:
   incommunicable

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1. List of paraphrases for "contagious":

   communicable, infectious, transmissible

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contagious

   Synonyms:
   Infectious

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How to use contagious in a sentence?

1. Carly Fiorina:

   We are talking about contagious diseases and I would certainly encourage parents to vaccinate their children.

2. Jrue Holiday:

   It's contagious, the ball has energy. Pushing the pace and seeing the ball go through the hoop, the hoop just grows and gets bigger. From there, I feel like the pressure kind of falls off your shoulders, the weight kind of falls and you just let it go and let it shoot.

3. Don Milton:

   We know that the Delta variant circulating now is even more contagious than the Alpha variant. Our research indicates that the variants just keep getting better at travelling through the air, so we must provide better ventilation and wear tight-fitting masks, in addition to vaccination, to help stop spread of the virus.

4. Neil Finkler:

   The Delta variant has proven to be so highly contagious that even the young and the healthy, including pregnant patients, are now starting to fill up our hospitals.

5. Rochelle Walensky:

   If you’re positive—you should probably stay at home, but a negative—that doesn’t mean you’re not contagious. And we needed to be very clear about that.