Dictionary Entry
contagious
contagious is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
- 2adjective
Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
- 3adjective
Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
- 4adjective
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- 5adjective
easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
"a contagious grin"
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