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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer
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| definition 1: |
capable of being spread from person to person by contact or association.
Measles is a contagious disease.The infection is highly contagious.- synonyms:
- communicable, infectious, transmissible, transmittable
- similar words:
- catching, epidemic, pandemic, pestilential, transferable
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| definition 2: |
carrying or capable of spreading a disease.
The sick child is contagious and shouldn't be in school.- similar words:
- leprous, rabid, sick
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| definition 3: |
spreading easily and rapidly from person to person.
The fear was contagious and swept through the village.The joke wasn't that funny but all the children were soon overcome with contagious laughter.- synonyms:
- infectious
- similar words:
- catching, epidemic
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| related words: |
contact |
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| derivations: |
contagiously (adv.), contagiousness (n.) |
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