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Synonyms for contagious
kənˈteɪ dʒəscon·ta·gious
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Wiktionary
contagiousadjective
Antonyms:
non-contagiouscontagiousadjective
Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.
The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
Synonyms:
catching, infectiousAntonyms:
non-contagiouscontagiousadjective
Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.
Antonyms:
non-contagiouscontagiousadjective
They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.
Antonyms:
non-contagious
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
contagious
Synonyms:
catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infectionsAntonyms:
sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic
Princeton's WordNet
contagiousadjective
easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
"a contagious grin"
Synonyms:
transmittable, transmissible, contractable, catching, communicableAntonyms:
noninfectiouscatching, 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, transmittedAntonyms:
noninfectious
Dictionary of English Synonymes
contagiousadjective
Synonyms:
infectious, catchingcontagiousadjective
Synonyms:
pestilential, pestiferous, poisonous, deadly
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
contagiousadjective
Synonyms:
communicable, infectious, pestilential, pestiferousAntonyms:
incommunicable
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List of paraphrases for "contagious":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
contagious
Synonyms:
Infectious
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4344 | genetic | |
#5724 | transferred | |
#6210 | transmitted | |
#7111 | infections | |
#8058 | inherited | |
#8855 | infectious | |
#11121 | catching | |
#13501 | epidemic | |
#16241 | communicated | |
#22771 | ancestral | |
#23757 | hereditary | |
#24384 | familial | |
#26169 | contagious | |
#28206 | communicable | |
#70078 | transmissible | |
#178828 | patrimonial | |
#238022 | transmittable | |
#264537 | pestilential |
How to use contagious in a sentence?
That includes early case identification, isolating people who are sick and tracing those that the person has come into contact with while they were contagious, we don't have to go through the serious mitigation steps that we're taking to get us under control.
Norovirus is highly contagious — and once present, it can spread quickly among participants.
So it's very contagious -- a very contagious disease -- and if one child comes to a camp with the measles virus and can spread it, then it puts the other children at risk, you're not going to send them to summer camp without sunscreen.
Let's face it, nobody wants a waiter who feels like they have to come to work when they're coughing or contagious, that's not good for anybody.
She had been doing fine, but all of a sudden with this Omicron spread, that's the only thing we're worried about because it's something very contagious and it's spreading fast.
Translations for contagious
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- معديArabic
- заразителен, заразенBulgarian
- nakažlivýCzech
- ansteckendGerman
- μεταδοτικόςGreek
- contagiosoSpanish
- tarttuva, tartuntavaarallinenFinnish
- contagieuxFrench
- gabhálachIrish
- संक्रामकHindi
- fertőzőHungarian
- berjangkitIndonesian
- smitandiIcelandic
- contagioso, infettivoItalian
- [[伝染性]]のJapanese
- lipīgsLatvian
- mauhoroMāori
- aanstekelijk, besmettelijkDutch
- zaraźliwyPolish
- contagiante, contagiosoPortuguese
- molipsitor, contagiosRomanian
- заразительный, заразныйRussian
- zarazanSerbo-Croatian
- smittsam, smittbärandeSwedish
- bulaşıcıTurkish
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