contagious
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3.1
- adjective
- /kənˈteɪdʒəs/
- The doctor explained that some infections can be contagious before any symptoms appear.
- a contagious disease
- highly contagious
- contagious enthusiasm
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Watch on YouTubeLike there was that just tells you how contagious ignorance is.
- Like there was that just tells you how contagious ignorance is.
- Kissing someone who is got a contagious illness.
- Excitement, greed, and FOMO can be contagious in such environments.
- But if there's one thing, if there's one thing out there more contagious than COVID, it's stupid.
- It's the perfect, it's mild and contagious and soon nature will immunize us all.
- Yawning, like several other things, has a contagious element to it.
- And, and so it's probably much more contagious.
- But for pitching enthusiasm, because it's contagious.
- do not typically present both deadly and contagious,
Examples
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So if you have a cold, right, the days that you're most contagious are the first few days that you have symptoms.
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But instead, they created a more contagious form of the disease.
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"I might at least be able to tell you whether it's a contagious disease or not.
Fiction book (1992) -
But because it is a contagious virus, just like the flu.
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An attitude is a trait that is very contagious and can perhaps make or break a department.
Academic text (1994) -
Emotions are contagious So what you're feeling is normal.
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Both jazz and humor are contagious and create a feeling of harmony with our neighbors.
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It looks like some people with this infection were contagious even before they had any symptoms themselves.
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During the flu season, it is important to stay home if you are feeling contagious.
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Laughter is contagious; when one person starts laughing, others often join in.
Synonyms
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4.0
A feeling or disease that spreads quickly to other people
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4.2
Able to pass from one person to another and cause sickness
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3.4
A disease that spreads very easily between people
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5.3
Able to pass from one person or animal to another by infection
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3.9
Able to pass from one person or animal to another
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7.4
Able to make people sick and spread disease
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3.9
Able to pass from one person to another
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3.5
Able to spread from one person to another, like a cold
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7.1
Able to be caught from another person and make you sick
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4.7
Easy to get, especially an illness that spreads between people
Easily caught and spread among people or animals
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An illness that spreads among farm animals and makes pregnant animals lose their unborn young and can infect people
How Contagious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Contagious comes from Latin parts con- 'with' and tangere 'to touch'. So, think of something that 'touches' others and spreads to them, like a disease or a feeling, which is why we call things that pass quickly from person to person 'contagious'.