contagious
Meaning of contagious
adjective
- (of a disease) Easily transmitted to others.
The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
- 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.
They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.
Information about contagious
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Hyphenation of contagious
con-ta-gious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- contagious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
contagious synonyms
Meaning catching:
catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable
Meaning :
Translation of contagious
- French: contagieux
- German: ansteckend, infektiös, kontagiös
- Spanish: contagioso, contagiosa
- Portuguese: contagioso
- Italian: contagioso
Words that rhyme with contagious
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