meaning of infectious
1. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
2. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
3. Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
5. easily spread; "fear is exceedlingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
Related Words
infectious | infectious agent | infectious disease | infectious hepatitis | infectious mononucleosis | infectious polyneuritis | infectiously | infectiousness |
