noncontagious

Examples

• All

• The choice of a noncontagious agent understates, however, the potential benefits of biological surveillance.

  Academic text (2005)

• Unlike the flu, which is contagious, this disease is noncontagious and poses no risk of transmission.

• Many noncontagious diseases, such as allergies, do not require isolation from others.

Synonyms

N

noninfectious

vsnoncontagious

• Specialized

1 4.6

Not able to spread disease between people

focuses on infection processes rather than direct person to person spread

N

noncommunicable

vsnoncontagious

• Specialized

6.3

A disease that cannot be passed from one person to another

is the same in meaning but uses a different word form

N

nontransmissible

vsnoncontagious

• Specialized

7.9

Cannot be passed from one person to another

is limited to diseases not passed directly between people

U

uninfective

vsnoncontagious

• Specialized

6.9

Not able to make others sick or to spread a disease

emphasizes lack of infectiousness rather than only failure to transmit between people

U

uncommunicable

vsnoncontagious

8.1

Something that you cannot explain or share with other people

is specific to diseases that are not spread from person to person

Antonyms

C

contagious

108 3.1

Something that spreads from one person to another, like a disease or feeling

How Contagious

contagious

108 3.1

infectious

• Specialized

76 3.9

noncontagious

1 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology