INFECTIOUS
\ɪnfˈɛkʃəs], \ɪnfˈɛkʃəs], \ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_s]\
Definitions of INFECTIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
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Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
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Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
By Oddity Software
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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
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Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
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Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
By Noah Webster.
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That may be given to others by communication; as, measles is an infectious disease; sympathetic; carrying the power to affect with a disease.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William R. Warner
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Pertaining to or of the nature of infection. Capable of transmitting disease or disease-producing germs.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Contagious, influencing by communicated qualities.
By Thomas Sheridan
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