Usually means: Spreads disease from person to person.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. contagious: Merriam-Webster
  2. contagious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contagious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contagious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contagious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contagious, contagious: Wordnik
  7. contagious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contagious: Wiktionary
  9. contagious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contagious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contagious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contagious: Dictionary.com
  13. contagious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contagious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contagious (Peggy Scott-Adams album), Contagious (Y&T album), Contagious (disambiguation), Contagious (film), Contagious (magazine), Contagious (novel), Contagious (song), Contagious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contagious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contagious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contagious: Rhymezone
  19. Contagious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contagious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CONTAGIOUS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. contagious: FreeDictionary.org
  23. contagious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. contagious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. contagious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contagious: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contagious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. contagious: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  8. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  9. contagious: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contagious: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See contagiously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a disease) Easily transmitted to others.
adjective:  (figurative) Easily passed on to others.
adjective:  (of a person) Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.
adjective:  Contiguous.

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