infectious
Meaning of infectious
adjective
- (of a disease or disease-causing organism) liable to be transmitted to people, organisms, etc. through the environment.
outbreaks of infectious diseases
was polyneuritis infectious?
a highly infectious virus
- likely to spread or influence others in a rapid manner.
a loud infectious laugh
her enthusiasm is infectious
Information about infectious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of infectious
in-fec-tious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- infectious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
infectious synonyms
Meaning infective:
Meaning ill health:
Meaning (of a disease) spread from one person or organism to another, typically by direct contact:
Meaning (of a disease) able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another; contagious or infectious:
Meaning (of a disease or trait) able to be passed on from one person or organism to another:
Meaning (especially of financial assets, liabilities, or legal rights) able to be transferred or made over to the possession of another person:
Meaning open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length:
Meaning (of a disease) infectious:
Meaning of the nature of an epidemic:
Meaning (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world:
Meaning denoting or relating to a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population:
Meaning too attractive and tempting to be resisted:
Meaning evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way:
Translation of infectious
- Spanish: contagioso, infecciosa, infeccioso, contagiosa
- French: infectieux
- Italian: infettivo
- Portuguese: infeccioso, contagioso
Words that rhyme with infectious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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