230 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪnfˈɛkʃəs], [ ɪnfˈɛkʃəs], [ ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_s]

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Similar words for infectious:

• all (adjective)
• baneful (adjective)
• catching (adjective)
• catching, spreading (adjective)
• contagious (adjective)
• diseased (adjective)
• epidemic (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• pestiferous (adjective)
• pestilent/pestilential (adjective)
• unclean (adjective)
• catching (noun)
• contractable (noun)
• infectious (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• memorable
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "infectious" in context?

Paraphrases for infectious

Synonyms for Infectious:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • infective,
  • infectious.
  • baneful (adjective)
  • contagious,
  • evil,
  • baneful,
  • cancerous,
  • ill,
  • cursed,
  • poisonous,
  • calamitous.
  • catching (adjective)
  • more transmittable,
  • most infective,
  • more epizootic,
  • more miasmatic,
  • most miasmatic,
  • most epizootic,
  • most transmittable,
  • more infective.
  • catching, spreading (adjective)
  • pestilent,
  • pestilential,
  • corrupting,
  • miasmic,
  • virulent,
  • mephitic,
  • transferable,
  • Defiling,
  • Vitiating,
  • contaminating,
  • noxious,
  • Polluting,
  • toxic,
  • poisoning.
  • contagious (adjective)
  • more transmissible,
  • more impartible,
  • more inoculable,
  • most inoculable,
  • most transmissible,
  • most impartible.
  • diseased (adjective)
  • in firm.
  • epidemic (adjective)
  • wide-ranging,
  • prevailing.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • transmissible,
  • harmful baneful,
  • communicable,
  • catching,
  • Miasmatic,
  • Inoculable,
  • pestiferous,
  • epizootic,
  • transmittable,
  • Impartible.
  • pestiferous (adjective)
  • un healthiest,
  • un healthier,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un healthy,
  • un-healthy.
  • pestilent/pestilential (adjective)
  • more pestilent,
  • more contaminating,
  • most contaminating,
  • more tainting,
  • most tainting.
  • unclean (adjective)
  • impure,
  • crummy,
  • unclean,
  • dusty,
  • offensive,
  • sloppy,
  • foul,
  • dingy,
  • odious,
  • grimy,
  • grubby,
  • grungy,
  • shabby,
  • dirty,
  • slovenly,
  • smutty,
  • sordid,
  • murky,
  • fetid,
  • icky,
  • scruffy,
  • insalubrious,
  • filthy,
  • disgusting,
  • untidy,
  • obscene,
  • mucky,
  • unsanitary,
  • scatological,
  • putrid,
  • unhygenic,
  • squalid,
  • muddy,
  • festering,
  • defiled.

• n.

  •
  • autoimmune,
  • chronic,
  • acute,
  • asymptomatic,
  • clinical,
  • benign,
  • congenital,
  • advanced.
  •
  • blind,
  • depth,
  • affective,
  • acutely,
  • deep-seated,
  • deep,
  • bitter,
  • basic,
  • burning,
  • casual.
  •
  • contagion,
  • candida,
  • antibody,
  • carrier,
  • cross infection,
  • fester,
  • cross-contamination,
  • move,
  • defense,
  • defense mechanism,
  • biosecurity.
  • catching (noun)
  • irresistible,
  • dangerous.
  • contractable (noun)
  • contractable.
  • infectious (noun)
  • septic.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • epidemic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • incapacitated,
  • homebound,
  • housebound,
  • drained,
  • Sickened,
  • smitten,
  • groggy,
  • unwell,
  • woozy,
  • unfit,
  • frail,
  • indisposed,
  • blah,
  • unsteady,
  • feeble,
  • ailing,
  • disordered,
  • leaden,
  • undernourished,
  • worse,
  • bedridden,
  • diseased,
  • senile,
  • shivery,
  • lightheaded,
  • stricken,
  • wretched,
  • unhealthy,
  • shaky.
  •
  • fragile,
  • wobbly,
  • disgusted,
  • delirious,
  • sickly,
  • shocked,
  • feverish,
  • fevered,
  • giddy,
  • languid.
  •
  • taking,
  • dizzy,
  • rough,
  • failing.
  •
  • sick,
  • grim,
  • critical.
  •
  • terrible,
  • terminal.
  •
  • dead.
  •
  • down.
  • memorable
  • catchy.
  • Other relevant words:
  • non-communicable.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • deadly,
  • endemic,
  • Epidemical,
  • ill health,
  • veneniferous,
  • outbreak,
  • spreading,
  • health problem,
  • morbific,
  • infection,
  • rash,
  • pestilence,
  • Venenate,
  • caustic,
  • toxicant,
  • Attracting,
  • sympathetic,
  • scourge,
  • sharp,
  • hurtful,
  • acrid,
  • venomous,
  • sulphurous,
  • epiphytotic,
  • malignant,
  • malign,
  • putrefactive,
  • alluring,
  • venenous,
  • unhealthiness,
  • hot,
  • toxiferous,
  • plague,
  • pandemic,
  • destructive,
  • captivating,
  • acerbic,
  • blistering,
  • abscessed,
  • zymotic,
  • Envenomed,
  • miasmal,
  • sporadic,
  • vitriolic,
  • pathogenic,
  • infect,
  • contaminative,
  • infected.

How to use "Infectious" in context?

Paraphrases for Infectious:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    communicable, contagious, infective.
  • Proper noun, singular
    communicable, contagious.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    communicable, infective.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    contaminant, contaminated, pathogenic.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Infections, STDS.
  • Noun, plural
    Infections, determinants.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    communicative, epidemiological, transferable, disease-causing, non-communicable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    infection.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    infection, infectivity.