Infectious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFECTIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• capable of causing infection
• (of a disease or disease-causing organism) liable to be transmitted to people, organisms, etc. through the environment
• liable to spread infection
• likely to spread or influence others in a rapid manner
• Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
• Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
• Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
• Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
• caused by infection or capable of causing infection
• easily spread
• of or relating to infection
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capable of causing infection; communicable by infection — compare contagious

Words related to INFECTIOUS

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Words that contain INFECTIOUS

infectiously20 noninfectious18 infectiousness19 postinfectious21 infectiousnesse20 infectiousnesses21

How to use INFECTIOUS in a sentence

• It is certain that such diseases are propagated by contagion and infection, in just the same way as ordinary contagious and infectious diseases are propagated.
• The wretched woman pines and dies, and the two children take some infectious disease and quickly follow.
• Meanwhile, poor Jo left behind him a dread and infectious disease which Charley caught from him, and in twelve hours after his escape she was very, very ill.
• This precaution, especially in the case of dead limbs, is important, for most dead wood in young trees is due to disease, often infectious, and should be burned at once.
• It was a decidedly infectious laugh and perhaps for this reason it was the first detail to catch his attention and to excite his disapproval.
• After the infectious condition has been controlled, and the wound is dry, the same plan of treatment is indicated that is employed in the non-suppurating corn.
• But then Kars was using all the strength of a powerful, infectious personality in his effort.
• Freedom is infectious and contagious, and the disease is speedily caught by the old-world arrival, who breathes in its germs almost before the ship-motion wears off.
• No person suffering with a contagious or infectious disease has any right to communicate the same to another.
• Were they to be generally observed, most of the infectious diseases and a good many others would soon vanish from among men.
• KITASATO, Chief of the Kitasato Institute for Infectious Diseases, Tokyo.
• In consequence, the number of deaths from the acute or infectious diseases has been greatly diminished.
• When he arrived at Djenan-el-Maqui he brought with him, as of old, an infectious atmosphere of enthusiasm.
• Before this time is reached there will be a great lowering of resistance, and the individual will be a prey to the infectious diseases.
• But he was enjoying himself so much that his enjoyment was infectious.
• When infectious cases are found the remnants of families have to be broken up afresh.
• The modes of transmission of infectious diseases are of great importance and are the foundation of measures of public health.
• This is a highly infectious disease, towards which all mankind is susceptible.
• The most cursory study of the infectious diseases shows that there is great variation in the susceptibility of individuals.
• That method had been used by Pasteur and by himself in the case of other infectious diseases.

Similar words containing FECTIOU without suffix s and without prefix in

infectiously20 noninfectious18 infectiousness19 postinfectious21 infectiousnesse20 infectiousnesses21

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