All contagious synonyms
con·ta·gious
C c adj contagious
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- taking — the act of taking.
- impartible — not partible; indivisible.
- inoculable — capable of being inoculated.
- transmissible — capable of being transmitted.
- transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
adjective contagious
- spreadable — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.