| Main Entry: | contagious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
Synonyms: |
catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable |
| Notes: | diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread by air or water are infectious |
Antonyms: |
noncommunicable |
| 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: | 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: | pestilent/pestilential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, |
Synonyms: |
contagious, contaminating, corrupting, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diseased, evil, fatal, harmful baneful, infectious, injurious, lethal, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, ruinous, tainting, troublesome, vicious |
Antonyms: |
clean, healthy, hygienic, safe, sanitary |
| Main Entry: | pestilent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
Synonyms: |
baneful, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diseased, evil, fatal, harmful, infectious, injurious, lethal, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, tainting, troublesome, vicious |
| Main Entry: | pestiferous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | annoying |
Synonyms: |
bothersome, contagious, diseased, harmful, infectious, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, toxic, unhealthy, virulent |
| Main Entry: | taking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
Synonyms: |
catching, communicative, contagious, expansive, infectious, pandemic, transferable, transmittable |
| Main Entry: | taking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Taking. |
| Category: | 2. Transfer of Property |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
taking; reception (taking in); deglutition (taking food); appropriation, prehension, prensation; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension; abreption, seizure, abduction, ablation; subtraction (subduction); abstraction, ademption; adrolepsy., dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction., rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft., resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery., clutch, swoop, wrench; grip (retention); haul, take, catch; scramble., taker, captor.
-verbs
take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept., reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather (get); draw., appropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of., take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave., snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on., get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of., catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand., take from, take away from; disseize; deduct; retrench (curtail); dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling., oust (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; unsurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb & c. (suck in) [more]; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech., retake, resume; recover.
-adjectives
taking; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic., bereft.
-adverbs
at one fell swoop.
-phrases
give an inch and take an ell.
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Antonyms: |
restitution |
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