contagious

About 1.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Easily transmitted to others.

   Last year's flu strain was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!

2. adjective Easily passed on to others.

   contagious enthusiasm; infectious laughter

3. adjective Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.

   They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.

4. adjective Contiguous.

Similar words

catching communicable transmissible infectious transmittable contractable infected epidemiological virulent agalactia

Often followed by

diseases disease and or nature enthusiasm as in abortion

Word family

contagiously contagiousness contagiousnesses