Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
- 2adjective
Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
- 3adjective
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
- 4adjective
Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
- 5adjective
easily spread- Bertrand Russell
"fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"
- 6adjective
caused by infection or capable of causing infection
"viruses and other infective agents"
"a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
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- 7adjective
of or relating to infection
"infectious hospital"
"infectious disease"
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