Skip to main content
uninfective

uninfective

6.9
Not able to make others sick or to spread a disease
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnɪnˈfɛktɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no infeccioso
  • This vaccine is uninfective!

Examples

  • The treatment is uninfective.

  • The vaccine made the virus uninfective, preventing it from spreading to other people.

  • The laboratory confirmed that the virus sample was uninfective and safe to handle.

  • Doctors assured the public that the recovered patient was now uninfective and could return home.

  • After treatment, the bacteria became uninfective and posed no further threat.

  • The lab discovered that the strain of bacteria was uninfective, meaning it posed no risk of illness.

  • His exposure to the uninfective version of the pathogen reassured him that he wouldn't get sick.

Synonyms

noninfectious
vsuninfective
  • Specialized
1 4.6

Not able to spread disease between people

is limited to inability to spread disease to other people
noncontagious
vsuninfective
1 4.4

Not able to spread from one person to another

is broader and includes inability to cause infection as well as spread
noncommunicable
vsuninfective
  • Specialized
6.3

A disease that cannot be passed from one person to another

focuses on inability to spread infection rather than other disease features
nontransmissible
vsuninfective
  • Specialized
7.9

Cannot be passed from one person to another

is limited to inability to spread disease between people rather than other traits

Antonyms

infective
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Able to make people sick and spread disease

How Infectious

contagious
108 3.1
infectious
  • Specialized
76 3.9
uninfective
  • Specialized
6.9
noninfectious
  • Specialized
1 4.6

Surface Forms

uninfective positive

Morphology

uninfective = infective (transparent) = un + infect + ive

The word is formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'infective', yielding the straightforward negated meaning.

Etymology

The word uninfective breaks into un- meaning 'not' and infect meaning 'to pass a disease into someone', so uninfective describes something 'not able to cause infection or to spread disease'.