What is another word for contagious?
Pronunciation:
[ kəntˈe͡ɪd͡ʒəs], [ kəntˈeɪdʒəs], [ k_ə_n_t_ˈeɪ_dʒ_ə_s]
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Similar words for contagious:
- all (adjective)
- baneful (adjective)
- communicable (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- epidemic (adjective)
- infectious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pestiferous (adjective)
- pestilent/pestilential (adjective)
- unhealthy (adjective)
- communicable (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Contagious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • baneful (adjective) • communicable (adjective) • dangerous (adjective) • epidemic (adjective) • infectious (adjective) • Other relevant words: (adjective) • pestiferous (adjective) • pestilent/pestilential (adjective) • unhealthy (adjective)n.
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•
- conceptual,
- popular,
- nonconformist,
- metaphysical,
- utopian,
- deterministic,
- orthodox,
- central,
- theoretical,
- abstract.
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•
- asymptomatic,
- clinical,
- chronic,
- autoimmune,
- benign,
- acute,
- advanced,
- move,
- congenital.
- incubate,
- infective,
- poisonous,
- carrier,
- infest,
- destructive,
- epiphytotic,
- fester,
- virulent,
- transmission,
- transportative,
- taking,
- transportable,
- carry,
- epizootic,
- spreading,
- venomous,
- communicable disease,
- communicate,
- consignable,
- infected,
- Portative,
- transmittable,
- catch,
- endemic,
- malignant,
- conveyable,
- expressable,
- Envenomed,
- conductive,
- assignable,
- contagion,
- insanitary,
- toxic,
- interchangeable,
- verminous,
- contractable,
- prophylactic,
- infection,
- toxiferous,
- noxious,
- vector,
- veneniferous,
- Inoculable,
- miasmic,
- pandemic,
- pestilential,
- non-communicable,
- Transmissive,
- sporadic,
- deadly,
- impartable,
- Miasmatic,
- mephitic,
- venenous,
- pass,
- Metathetic,
- catching,
- insalubrious,
- portable,
- Transposable,
- transmissible,
- malign,
- removable,
- movable,
- toxicant,
- infect,
- harbour,
- virulence,
- miasmal,
- Mailable,
- epidemial,
- transferable,
- zymotic,
- unhygienic,
- Venenate,
- transfusable,
- transmit,
- mediastinum,
- epidemic.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- nonplus,
- transplant,
- poke out,
- befoulment,
- preventive,
- hybridize,
- disastrous,
- overwhelm,
- foul,
- motor,
- vitriolic,
- flap,
- glide by,
- ghastly,
- virulency,
- go along,
- happen,
- baffle,
- annoying,
- reach,
- seedy,
- contaminant,
- perversive,
- fare,
- mad,
- error,
- passing,
- clear,
- see,
- have a bun in the oven,
- knifelike,
- dissemination,
- bring,
- transferee,
- nurse,
- caustic,
- plaguey,
- effort,
- render,
- disperse,
- broaden,
- sully,
- flaw,
- have the best,
- persuade,
- subsist,
- interbreeding,
- acuate,
- cash in one's chips,
- spotting,
- contracting,
- toss,
- pass away,
- injurious,
- stockpile,
- later,
- savage,
- prolong,
- cause,
- subsequently,
- piercing,
- subdue,
- intersect,
- actuate,
- cadence,
- excrete,
- contraceptive,
- make it,
- vapourous,
- hitch,
- condemnable,
- disqualify,
- take hold of,
- drum,
- express mail,
- offer,
- contagious disease,
- vexing,
- give away,
- fascinate,
- bye,
- enamour,
- crabby,
- passing game,
- pass over,
- negotiable,
- chuck,
- damned,
- pestering,
- expand,
- outdistance,
- under the weather,
- turn in,
- in advance,
- bilk,
- beam,
- mailman,
- pale,
- geological fault,
- overtake,
- wickedness,
- slip by,
- charge,
- catch up with,
- beat up,
- grumpy,
- vomit,
- private road,
- needlelike,
- haul,
- degeneracy,
- driving force,
- acerbic,
- musical rhythm,
- malefic,
- fussy,
- experience,
- fall out,
- crossbreed,
- shit,
- grisly,
- indispose,
- unrecorded,
- redeem,
- keen,
- hybrid,
- crossbreeding,
- watch,
- bearer,
- bewitching,
- genetical,
- curst,
- innovative,
- get off,
- communicating,
- use,
- collar,
- stick,
- grim,
- evince,
- circulate,
- penetrative,
- pitch,
- obliterable,
- drag through the mud,
- come about,
- exit,
- corruptive,
- peaked,
- rhythm,
- exhaust,
- flunk,
- benignant,
- newsboy,
- displace,
- ticktock,
- show,
- extract,
- endemic disease,
- pass across,
- hold up,
- doomed,
- laissez passer,
- conveying,
- slide by,
- down,
- cast,
- hybridisation,
- pass along,
- brutal,
- travel by,
- personal chattel,
- go on,
- fatal,
- authorise,
- tired of,
- deucedly,
- nonconforming,
- beat back,
- purloin,
- entertain,
- labour,
- spue,
- use up,
- demented,
- unbalanced,
- populate,
- sophisticated,
- hold out,
- trance,
- worsened,
- mortified,
- outperform,
- distribute,
- go off,
- regorge,
- mar,
- deport,
- vomit up,
- round,
- outsmart,
- enamor,
- macabre,
- make a motion,
- vexatious,
- moveable,
- direct,
- check,
- lift,
- spew,
- force back,
- fade,
- measure,
- crush,
- parkway,
- safety,
- outwit,
- baleful,
- upchuck,
- unhealthful,
- lethal,
- pilfer,
- hybridization,
- shield,
- push back,
- captivate,
- expire,
- flattop,
- check out,
- shop,
- kick the bucket,
- strait,
- add,
- relocation,
- verbalise,
- defeat,
- know,
- act,
- ailment,
- elapse,
- motion,
- prompt,
- varied,
- ominous,
- later on,
- run,
- transpose,
- ride,
- tick,
- standardized,
- filch,
- haven,
- survey,
- sickish,
- excel,
- fetch,
- pass around,
- traduce,
- stretch forth,
- insufficiency,
- take,
- master,
- fling,
- put across,
- gestate,
- draw,
- conveyance of title,
- nonobjective,
- crack,
- ware,
- badly,
- liberty chit,
- scale,
- aim,
- wash up,
- bitter,
- hot,
- hold,
- thrust,
- sulphurous,
- rubber,
- ship,
- waste,
- base on balls,
- bewitch,
- morbid,
- brood,
- entrance,
- puzzle,
- authorize,
- pose,
- pulsation,
- have,
- program,
- impartation,
- want,
- nonfigurative,
- afterward,
- transmitter,
- pulsate,
- beguile,
- inveterate,
- public exposure,
- evanesce,
- lead,
- contribute,
- pinch,
- verbalize,
- exist,
- snitch,
- pernicious,
- deceive,
- cruel,
- unhinged,
- inborn,
- ill-tempered,
- indigenous,
- invade,
- behave,
- channel,
- pack,
- infiltrate,
- suppurating sore,
- prevalent,
- harbor,
- becharm,
- meter,
- irritating,
- driveway,
- lapse,
- deplorable,
- regurgitate,
- circularise,
- occur,
- inauspicious,
- lead astray,
- quiver,
- utter,
- fracture,
- proceed,
- deplete,
- repel,
- egest,
- come on,
- disseminate,
- dead,
- continuing,
- return,
- move through,
- modern,
- putridness,
- force,
- motility,
- pass off,
- transversal,
- scoop,
- make out,
- all in,
- gruesome,
- shape up,
- bushed,
- malevolent,
- cardinal,
- campaign,
- jewish-orthodox,
- live on,
- postman,
- sell,
- eliminate,
- hybridizing,
- give up,
- beguiling,
- come along,
- span,
- buy the farm,
- whirl,
- mystify,
- criminal,
- eastern orthodox,
- motivate,
- send out,
- apprehension,
- trip up,
- metre,
- fateful,
- mountain pass,
- sway,
- drive home,
- cuckold,
- get,
- zymolytic,
- air,
- similar,
- vanquish,
- ailing,
- circularize,
- legislate,
- overreach,
- ripe,
- flimsy,
- overstep,
- repulse,
- bewray,
- preventative,
- beatnik,
- enchanting,
- shell,
- shift,
- cat,
- autochthonous,
- go through,
- stretch out,
- amaze,
- contain,
- symptomless,
- interbreed,
- gimmick,
- overrun,
- decease,
- disturbed,
- view,
- dribble,
- best,
- predominant,
- cut through,
- bouncy,
- sweep over,
- galling,
- teasing,
- poisonous substance,
- standardised,
- stop,
- pickings,
- penetrating,
- walk,
- leave,
- last,
- barbarous,
- mail,
- nettlesome,
- movement,
- diffuse,
- honk,
- perish,
- synopsis,
- defile,
- thump,
- outline,
- perplex,
- gravel,
- imperfect,
- intense,
- dumbfound,
- change,
- heartbeat,
- rat,
- qualifying,
- mistake,
- foil,
- eat up,
- fetching,
- bewilder,
- make pass,
- pick up,
- get over,
- cabbage,
- go,
- programme,
- charm,
- iniquity,
- institutionalise,
- weakness,
- vaporous,
- remove,
- blow,
- weak,
- acquit,
- choke,
- forward-looking,
- telephone exchange,
- be active,
- pathologic,
- nobble,
- get on with,
- aircraft carrier,
- cloud,
- review,
- grass,
- strain,
- advance,
- pathogenic,
- expressage,
- conduct,
- hand,
- enchant,
- pesky,
- ingest,
- transference,
- rottenness,
- locomote,
- take in,
- strike,
- snarf,
- afterwards,
- overpower,
- capture,
- plaguy,
- blame,
- crabbed,
- maturate,
- be,
- place,
- subversion,
- die,
- putrescence,
- press out,
- immune carrier,
- crossing,
- primal,
- tenuous,
- crazy,
- check up on,
- fork out,
- bestow,
- institutionalize,
- ague,
- take place,
- innate,
- work over,
- flip,
- entrancing,
- stand out,
- democratic,
- dominant,
- complaint,
- thin,
- outmatch,
- immorality,
- conk,
- sickly,
- thrum,
- exchangeable,
- alive,
- come,
- slip away,
- inadequacy,
- whelm,
- transportation,
- pop off,
- disgorge,
- channelize,
- blow over,
- vex,
- badmouth,
- carrier wave,
- cede,
- mortal,
- letter carrier,
- drop dead,
- passing play,
- bad-tempered,
- go by,
- be sick,
- fleet,
- pollute,
- slight,
- frustrate,
- unsaved,
- poorly,
- continue,
- snuff it,
- travel,
- dirty,
- fail,
- widen,
- spoil,
- circumvent,
- hatch,
- blistering,
- grouchy,
- tell on,
- roughshod,
- taking into custody,
- put out,
- sick of,
- sneak,
- limited,
- extradite,
- stock,
- labor,
- cut across,
- defilement,
- putrefaction,
- tempting,
- cheat on,
- transmitting,
- unsound,
- break,
- drop,
- acerb,
- desert,
- toter,
- demolish,
- reach out,
- outgo,
- crisscross,
- commune,
- fall,
- sweep,
- deathly,
- check into,
- trounce,
- retch,
- tucker out,
- inhabit,
- propel,
- cautionary,
- fed up,
- discriminating,
- save,
- deleterious,
- throw up,
- transferrable,
- safe,
- imparting,
- give,
- lifelessly,
- enticing,
- fundamental,
- survive,
- come off,
- autochthonic,
- send off,
- acrid,
- theoretic,
- fascinating,
- notch,
- acute accent,
- give-up the ghost,
- eat,
- transfer of training,
- wipe out,
- rife,
- key,
- post,
- crown of thorns,
- unfold,
- condom,
- resilient,
- nauseous,
- spying,
- transcend,
- go past,
- abstractionist,
- carry-over,
- get across,
- devolve,
- gallop,
- trump,
- hap,
- draw out,
- pound,
- straits,
- delicate,
- intercommunicate,
- flummox,
- dwell,
- brainsick,
- present,
- propagate,
- fell,
- abstraction,
- scramble,
- morbific,
- run through,
- lend,
- bad,
- incisive,
- transferral,
- passport,
- madly,
- mail carrier,
- devilishly,
- thwartwise,
- get the better of,
- incite,
- precis,
- rescue,
- fallible,
- crusade,
- commit,
- pallid,
- conveyancing,
- tucker,
- seaport,
- sharp,
- transverse,
- hand over,
- chapelgoer,
- scotch,
- unredeemed,
- match,
- track,
- nauseated,
- hybridise,
- puke,
- overmuch,
- affect,
- stupefy,
- comport,
- exchange,
- state,
- corruptness,
- cheat,
- guide,
- suppurate,
- espial,
- airing,
- purge,
- arrest,
- driving,
- outflank,
- pass on,
- fork over,
- hook,
- sink,
- wan,
- reassign,
- wander,
- beat out,
- pulse,
- grab,
- mark,
- swipe,
- outfox,
- acid,
- overhear,
- pop,
- transmission system,
- lack,
- insanely,
- get along with,
- station,
- queasy,
- top,
- birth,
- fork up,
- overhaul,
- distance,
- traverse,
- ticktack,
- expect,
- ram,
- winning,
- chattel,
- give tongue to,
- turn over,
- snatch,
- tug,
- endure,
- depravity,
- denounce,
- impress,
- push,
- bothersome,
- detection,
- look into,
- thwart,
- stag,
- genic,
- polluted,
- get the best,
- croak,
- get on,
- springy,
- bear,
- transit,
- give birth,
- unconformist,
- common carrier,
- protract,
- devour,
- spread,
- sulfurous,
- surrender,
- head,
- queer,
- poison,
- disgusted,
- transport,
- barf,
- lively,
- stretch,
- blemish,
- cover,
- fall over,
- reprehensible,
- attack aircraft carrier,
- bunk,
- autochthonal,
- check over,
- black,
- indisposed,
- snap,
- evilness,
- corrupt,
- recusant,
- channelise,
- antifertility,
- enthralling,
- progress.
- convey,
- consume,
- drive,
- send,
- defect,
- get along,
- fault,
- genetic,
- pass through,
- patrimonial,
- Contagiousness,
- contaminate,
- disease,
- extend,
- demerit,
- squander,
- live,
- impart,
- expend,
- Drifted,
- pollution,
- inherited,
- infectivity,
- cross,
- broadcast,
- shortcoming,
- pass by,
- outstrip,
- transmitted,
- outdo,
- deliver,
- captivating,
- communication,
- surpass,
- vicious,
- overcome,
- deficiency,
- transmittal,
- ancestral,
- hurtful,
- taint,
- corruption,
- transfer,
- contamination,
- too much,
- spend,
- transmittance,
- surmount,
- hereditary,
- exceed,
- after,
- conveyance,
- Transferred,
- beat,
- go over,
- express,
- Epidemical,
- alluring,
- familial,
- betray,
- circulation.
How to use "Contagious" in context?
Contagiousness refers to the ability of an agent to spread its effects in a population or among objects. In health care, contagiousness is used to describe how an agent can spread from one person to another. In epidemiology, contagiousness is used to describe how a pathogen can spread in a population.
Paraphrases for Contagious:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
communicable, infectious, transmissible.
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Proper noun, singular
communicable, infectious.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
epidemiological, infected, transferable, transmitted.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
transmittable, non-communicable.
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Adjective
Homophones for Contagious:
- candy kiss, cinematise, candidiasis, caisson disease, chess match, cant hook, Canna Indica, centesis, chicken taco, cometic, common daisy, coconut cake, candidacy, chionanthus, cant dog, chimonanthus, coondog, commodious, chintzy, chintz, canaanitic, Canada Jay, chemnitz, chemotaxis, countess, cinematize, cosmetic, candy egg, chiasmatic, cinematic, Cementitious, command key, common touch, centas, Canada Goose, canthus, comatose, conduce, contiguous, Comte De Saxe, contuse.
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- Synonyms:
- accessory, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, promotive, tending, useful, calculated to produce, productive of.