86 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪnfˈɛktɪv], [ ɪnfˈɛktɪv], [ ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]

Related words: what is an infective disease, what is an infective agent, what is a infective illness, what is an infective bacterium, what are the symptoms of an infective illness

Related questions:

How do you prevent an infective agent?

How do you prevent infectious disease?

How do you get an infectious disease?

Similar words for infective:

• catching (adjective)
• harmful (adjective)
• infectious (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• poison/poisonous (adjective)
• virulent (adjective)
• infective (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for infective

Synonyms for Infective:

• adj.

  • catching (adjective)
  • endemic,
  • transferable,
  • pestiferous,
  • epidemic,
  • dangerous,
  • pandemic,
  • communicable,
  • taking.
  • harmful (adjective)
  • poisonous.
  • infectious (adjective)
  • diseased,
  • noxious,
  • Vitiating,
  • poisoning,
  • contaminating,
  • corrupting,
  • Polluting,
  • Defiling,
  • toxic,
  • contagious,
  • pestilent.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • Mephitical,
  • infective,
  • infectious,
  • septic,
  • miasmic,
  • toxiferous,
  • mephitic,
  • virulent,
  • catching,
  • Miasmatic,
  • toxicant,
  • pestilential,
  • transmittable,
  • epizootic.
  • poison/poisonous (adjective)
  • detrimental,
  • malicious,
  • Viperous,
  • fatal,
  • deleterious,
  • hurtful,
  • corrupt,
  • morbid,
  • mortal,
  • baleful,
  • pernicious,
  • lethal,
  • vicious,
  • baneful,
  • peccant,
  • Nocuous,
  • evil,
  • bad,
  • corruptive,
  • noisome.
  • virulent (adjective)
  • injurious,
  • harmful,
  • unhealthy,
  • unwholesome,
  • poison.

• n.

  • infective (noun)
  • unhealthful.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • morbific,
  • pathogenic.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • caustic,
  • abscessed,
  • portable,
  • infected,
  • transmissible,
  • venomous,
  • malign,
  • sulphurous,
  • vitriolic,
  • spreading,
  • Contagiousness,
  • malignant,
  • sporadic,
  • blistering,
  • destructive,
  • adhesive,
  • acerbic,
  • contaminative,
  • Impartible,
  • deadly,
  • Infectiousness,
  • acrid,
  • Inoculable,
  • bitter.

Paraphrases for Infective:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    infectious.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    infectious.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    infection, necrosis, rhinotracheitis.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    communicable.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    communicable, infectivity.