Synonyms for contagious
kənˈteɪ dʒəscon·ta·gious

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1. contagiousadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

2. contagiousadjective

   Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.

   The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!

   Synonyms:
   catching, infectious

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

3. contagiousadjective

   Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

4. contagiousadjective

   They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.

   Antonyms:
   non-contagious

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. contagious

   Synonyms:
   catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections

   Antonyms:
   sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. contagiousadjective

   easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

   "a contagious grin"

   Synonyms:
   transmittable, transmissible, contractable, catching, communicable

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

2. catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Synonyms:
   inherited, genetic, communicable, transmittable, ancestral, catching, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   noninfectious

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contagiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   infectious, catching

2. contagiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   pestilential, pestiferous, poisonous, deadly

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1. contagiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   communicable, infectious, pestilential, pestiferous

   Antonyms:
   incommunicable

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1. List of paraphrases for "contagious":

   communicable, infectious, transmissible

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contagious

   Synonyms:
   Infectious

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How to use contagious in a sentence?

1. Francis Collins:

   I do think it’s more contagious, when you look at how rapidly it spread through multiple districts in South Africa.

2. Rachel Wolchin:

   Surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel, energies are contagious.

3. Billy Graham:

   Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

4. Mohammad Saber Hotak:

   That is due to other doctors not having the guts to work here due to the nature of the hospital, contagious diseases, and those of us who work here had to stay, I guess, when Mohammad Saber Hotak see a patient dying because of complications or resistance to drugs, it makes me feel sad that I couldn't do anything to treat him or her.

5. Tanya Altmann:

   Measles is one of the most contagious viruses that we’ve identified, and if one person has measles and there’s somebody unvaccinated around them, there’s a 90% chance they’re going to get it, it really just takes one unvaccinated person to travel into a community, and they can have a measles outbreak if there isn’t a high enough vaccination rate in that community.