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Infectious

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Definition

Something that is infectious can spread easily from one person or thing to another, especially a disease.

Synonyms & similar words

noninfectious infective contagious communicable catching transmissible spreadable epidemic pandemic virulent pathogenic disease-causing pestilential plaguey invasive infiltrative permeating penetrating diffusive percolating spreading ramifying

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