INFECTIOUS meaning: Capable of spreading disease rapidly

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word infectious:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

infectious: Merriam-Webster.com
infectious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
infectious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
infectious: Collins English Dictionary
infectious: Vocabulary.com
Infectious, infectious: Wordnik
infectious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
infectious: Wiktionary
infectious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
infectious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
infectious: Infoplease Dictionary
infectious: Dictionary.com
infectious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Infectious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Infectious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
infectious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
infectious: Rhymezone
infectious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
infectious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
infectious: Free Dictionary
infectious: Mnemonic Dictionary
infectious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

infectious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

infectious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
infectious: Medical dictionary
Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
▸ adjective:  (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
▸ adjective:  (of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.

Opposite:

noncontagious, sterile, antiseptic, clean, healthy

Types:

bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, helminths, more...

Phrases:

infectious diseases, infectious disease, infectious mononucleosis, infectious agents, infectious agent, more...

Adjectives:

most, acute, highly, least, chronic, non, only, certain, human, longer, differential

Colors:

green, yellow, red, orange, lime, more...

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