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

1. adjective. Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
2. adjective. Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
3. adjective. Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
4. adjective. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable

5. adjective. easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

   "a contagious grin"

Synonyms

catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable

Common word forms

contagiously, contagiousness

Words from these letters

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