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

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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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1. Diane Eustace:

   I’ve seen veterans in that before place, but once they start doing programs with us you can see their confidence build. It’s a complete 360 change for a lot of them, molly’s enthusiasm for wanting to help others is contagious.

2. Scott Gottlieb:

   That was the old measure. In the age of Omicron, with a much more contagious variant and with the fact that the population has a lot of immunity, so we're less susceptible overall, we may need to rethink that.

3. Janet Mills:

   Anybody that has to go into a nursing home or healthcare facility, a hospital, wherever, you deserve to be cared for by a person who has been fully protected themselves against contagious diseases, in the beginning of the pandemic, we found people catching the virus in the hospitals, some of them getting very, very ill from that and some of them dying.

4. Hannah Siddle:

   There is a real threat that this contagious cancer could now spread very rapidly through the population, the Tasmanian devil has already been decimated by one contagious cancer and these latest findings could jeopardize its future in the wild.

5. Jason Baruch:

   No one's really willing to put themselves on the line and say, 'Hey, you're home free, you have antibodies,' or, 'You're still contagious,' no one really wants to tell us - definitively - anything.