| Main Entry: | communicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be contracted |
Synonyms: |
catching, communicative, contagious, expansive, infectious, pandemic, taking, transferable, transmittable |
Antonyms: |
incontractable, noncommunicable, noncontagious |
| Main Entry: | catching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contagious (disease) |
Synonyms: |
communicable, dangerous, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, infectious, infective, miasmatic, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, taking, transferable, transmittable |
Antonyms: |
uncontagious |
| Main Entry: | communicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
Synonyms: |
candid, chatty, communicable, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, forthcoming, frank, garrulous, gushing, loquacious, open, outgoing, talkative, unreserved, voluble |
Antonyms: |
close-mouthed, reserved, reticent, unfriendly, uninformative, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
Synonyms: |
catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
Antonyms: |
limited |
| Main Entry: | infectious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catching, spreading |
Synonyms: |
communicable, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, defiling, diseased, epidemic, infective, mephitic, miasmic, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, poisoning, polluting, toxic, transferable, transmittable, virulent, vitiating |
Antonyms: |
antiseptic, germless, harmless, non-infectious, uncommunicable, uncontagious |
| Main Entry: | extraverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outgoing |
Synonyms: |
communicable, communicative, convivial, extraversive, extravertive, extroversive, extroverted, extrovertive, friendly, gregarious, sociable, social, unreserved |