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English to English adjective
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easily spread |  | Example: fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders
source: wordnet30
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of or relating to infection | | Example: infectious hospital
infectious disease
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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caused by infection or capable of causing infection | | Example: viruses and other infective agents
a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease
source: wordnet30
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