contagious
[adjective]
Synonyms: infectious, catching, communicable, spreading, transmissible

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con‧ta‧gious /kənˈteɪdʒəs/ adjective

1. a disease that is contagious can be passed from person to person by touch ⇒ infectious

2. a person who is contagious has a disease that can be passed to another person by touch ⇒ infectious:
The patient is still highly contagious.

3. if a feeling, attitude, or action is contagious, other people are quickly affected by it and begin to have it or do it ⇒ infectious:
her contagious enthusiasm
—contagiousness noun [uncountable]

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contagious
adj.
VERBS be, prove The new disease proved contagious.
ADV. highly, very Enthusiasm is highly contagious.

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