infectious

infectious is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 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 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
2. adjective. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
3. adjective. Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
4. adjective. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
5. adjective. easily spread- Bertrand Russell

   "fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"

6. adjective. caused by infection or capable of causing infection

   "viruses and other infective agents"

   "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"

   Synonyms: infective

7. adjective. of or relating to infection

   "infectious hospital"

   "infectious disease"

Synonyms

infective

Common word forms

infectiously, infectiousness

Words from these letters

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