infectious
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4.0
- adjective
- /ɪnˈfɛkʃəs/
:
contagioso
- She has an infectious laugh that always lifts the mood in the room.
- infectious disease
The reason it's more infectious is interesting.
- The reason it's more infectious is interesting.
- Like her energy is infectious, her smile is contagious.
- Like he, he has like an infectious spirit.
- And your example of greatness will be infectious.
- He was like, his presence was so infectious.
- Peter Attiya, the first graph in his book, talks about acute and infectious conditions.
- Well, your enchantment with sleep is indeed infectious.
- The energy you have around it is infectious.
- And to make it clear to people, your enthusiasm for science is infectious in the most positive sense of the word.
- Brain worms might not be real, but hate is infectious, disgusting, and perverse.
- Her energy and her humor are infectious.
- Just her energy was so infectious.
- Living your Quest is what can I do with my life so that my life becomes infectious to someone else?
Examples
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You have a very infectious laugh.
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The reason it's more infectious is interesting.
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Then it has this infectious impact on everyone else.
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But I think what stands out most about him is just his infectious personality.
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And to make it clear to people, your enthusiasm for science is infectious in the most positive sense of the word.
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But he stood out because he had the most amazingly infectious smile.
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Rosemary had been there to advise and suggest throughout, and her enthusiasm had been infectious.
Fiction book (1999) -
Andrew's excitement was infectious as we chugged toward the island.
Fiction book (1993) -
Your positivity is infectious.
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Butov looks back on an era dominated by the infectious excitement of new freedoms with a sympathetic, yet concerned, eye.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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3.1
Something that spreads from one person to another, like a disease or feeling
9
3.4
A disease that spreads very easily between people
9
4.2
Able to pass from one person to another and cause sickness
3
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
1
7.4
Able to make people sick and spread disease
Able to spread from one person to another, like a cold
Able to pass from one person to another
Able to be caught from another person and make you sick
Easily caught and spread among people or animals
Easy to get, especially an illness that spreads between people
Very likely to make people sick
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
37
3.0
A disease caused by germs that can spread from person to person
- Specialized
5
4.2
A tiny living thing like a virus or bacterium that can make people and animals sick
- Archaic
A short, often mild liver illness caused by a virus and spread by dirty food or water
- Specialized
A sickness caused by a virus that gives fever, sore throat, and swollen glands
- Archaic
Swelling of many nerves outside the brain and spinal cord that causes pain, weakness and sometimes paralysis
How Infectious
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3.1
26
4.0
- Specialized
3
5.3
- Specialized
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4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word infectious also comes from Latin inficere ('to put into' or 'to dye'), and a helpful image is a feeling that 'stains' people the same way colour stains cloth. That's why an infectious laugh or mood 'spreads' quickly from person to person.