| 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 |