All infective synonyms

adj infective

• catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
• harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
• toxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
• contagious — A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it. Compare infectious.
• virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
• taking — the act of taking.
• pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
• communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
• dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
• infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
• pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
• transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
• pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
• miasmatic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
• transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
• corrupting — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
• diseased — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
• mephitic — offensive to the smell.
• noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
• pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
• miasmic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
• poisoning — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• bad — If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
• baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
• baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
• corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
• deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
• deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
• destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
• detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
• fatal — causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
• hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
• lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
• malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
• malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
• morbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
• mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
• nocuous — likely to cause damage or injury; harmful; noxious.
• noisome — offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
• peccant — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
• pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
• venomous — (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• viperous — of the nature of or resembling a viper: a viperous movement.
• corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
• toxicant — poisonous; toxic.
• septic — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
• harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
• injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
• malign — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.