| Contagious 1. (a.) Communicating or transmitting by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; as, a contagious disease. 2. (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air. 3. (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. Thesaurus Entries assignable, catching, communicable, conductive, consignable, conveyable, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, expressable, impartable, infectious, infective, inoculable, interchangeable, mailable, malign, malignant, mephitic, metathetic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, movable, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, portable, portative, removable, sporadic, spreading, taking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transferable, transfusable, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, zymotic |