Synonyms for infection
ɪnˈfɛk ʃənin·fec·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infection

   Infection is frequently confused with contagion, even by medical men. The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental.

   Synonyms:
   contagion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infection

   Synonyms:
   taint, poison, contamination, corruption, contagion

   Antonyms:
   purification, disinfection, antidote

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infectionnoun

   the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

2. infectionnoun

   (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

3. infectionnoun

   (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

4. infection, contagion, transmissionnoun

   an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, transmittance, contagion, transmittal, transmitting, transmission system

5. contagion, infectionnoun

   the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

   "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagion, contagious disease

6. infectionnoun

   moral corruption or contamination

   "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

7. infectionnoun

   (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

Matched Categories

1. • Communication
   • Corruption
   • Ill Health
   • Illegality
   • Incident
   • Law
   • Linguistic Process
   • Medicine
   • Pathologic Process
   • Phonetics

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. buboes

   because it happened during the black death happened

   the people would get buboes by fleas

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contagion

2. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contamination, taint, bane, pest, poison

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contagion, contamination, vitiation, pollution

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "infection":

   infections, contagion, contamination, infected, disease, infectious, infestation

How to pronounce infection?

How to say infection in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use infection in a sentence?

1. Brad Segal:

   Kawasaki disease itself is often preceded by a respiratory or gastrointestinal illness, this has been known about Kawasaki disease for quite some time. No one completely understands it, but the model suggests it's triggered by an infection in a sort of immune dysregulation.

2. Jennifer Darling-Aduana:

   I'm sure there will still be kinks, and there will be last-minute changes if infection rates change or increase over time, but I know how much educators and administrators are working right now to try to make this fall run more smoothly.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   Ultimately, they're going to wind up infecting people in the community, but they're the ones that are sort of driving the infection.

4. John Brooks:

   Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection in the typical sense, but it can be transmitted during sexual and intimate contact, as well as with personal contact and shared bedding and clothing.

5. Narongsak Osottanakorn:

   The four children are well at Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital. But they still need to be kept away from their parents and others due to fear about infection.