contagious.

1. Capable of spreading between individuals through direct or indirect contact.

2. Readily passing from one person to others through influence or imitation, especially of feelings or behavior.

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Words that belong together

• contagious illness
• highly contagious

On the page

The team isolated the contagious illness before it reached the second habitat.

She asked whether the condition was contagious before approaching the bedside.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more contagious; superlative most contagious. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.