What are some opposite words for contagious?
Antonyms for contagious
kənˈteɪ dʒəscon·ta·gious
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term contagious.
Wiktionary
contagiousadjective
Antonyms:
non-contagiouscontagiousadjective
Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.
The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
Antonyms:
non-contagiousSynonyms:
catching, infectiouscontagiousadjective
Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.
Antonyms:
non-contagiouscontagiousadjective
They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.
Antonyms:
non-contagious
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
contagious
Antonyms:
sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipatheticSynonyms:
catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections
Princeton's WordNet
contagiousadjective
easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
"a contagious grin"
Antonyms:
noninfectiousSynonyms:
transmittable, transmissible, contractable, catching, communicablecatching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Antonyms:
noninfectiousSynonyms:
inherited, genetic, communicable, transmittable, ancestral, catching, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
contagiousadjective
Antonyms:
incommunicableSynonyms:
communicable, infectious, pestilential, pestiferous
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
contagious
Synonyms:
Infectious
How to use contagious in a sentence?
People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic( the sickest), some spread might be possible before people show symptoms ; there have been reports of this occurring with... coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
The measles virus is a highly contagious infectious disease that can be fatal in small children, and the existence of 26 confirmed cases in the state of Washington creates an extreme public health risk that may quickly spread to other counties.
People need to get vaccinated, they need to protect themselves, we know that this new variant is extremely contagious, and we also know that it is not that serious if you have been vaccinated and boosted.
It began with a moral panic : that homosexuality was contagious, that it might affect children, that it is more dangerous than nuclear war.
I think the focus needs to be on vaccines, not on masks for vaccinated individuals, i don’t see that being a major way the trajectory of cases changes. If it’s a rare occurrence maybe contagious in a small number of people- how is that going to make a dent in transmission going on from unvaccinated [people]?
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#11695 | preventive | |
#23588 | endemic | |
#26169 | contagious | |
#27660 | sporadic | |
#172438 | noninfectious |
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