infectious

infectious has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

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