Thesaurus: infectious

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1. a. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
2. a. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
3. a. Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
4. a. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
5. adj. caused by infection or capable of causing infection
6. adj. easily spread
7. adj. of or relating to infection
8. 1. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak. 2. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing. It [the court] is necessary for the polishing of manners . . . but it is infectious even to the best morals to live always in it. Dryden. 3. (Law) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious. W. Black. Syn. -- See Contagious.
9. Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure andforfeiture.Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent.
10. j:100 s. caused by infection or capable of causing infection a. easily spread; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell a. of or relating to infection