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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
contagious/kənˈteɪʤəs/
▶adjective
- 1 (of a disease) spread by direct or indirect contact of people or organisms.
■ having a contagious disease.
- 2 (of an emotion, attitude, etc.) likely to spread to and affect others: her enthusiasm is contagious.
– derivatives
contagiously adverb,
contagiousness noun.
contagiously adverb,
contagiousness noun.
'contagious' also found in these Oxford entries:
contact
- contagious abortion
- foot-and-mouth disease
- glanders
- impetigo
- influenza
- leprosy
- molluscum contagiosum
- parvovirus
- plague
- psittacosis
- quarantine
- ringworm
- rubella
- scabies
- smallpox
- trachoma
- trench fever
- verruca
- whooping cough
- yaws
- zymotic
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