Dictionary Definition
infectious adj
1 caused by infection or capable of causing
infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains
infective without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn:
infective]
2 easily spread; "fear is exceedlingly
infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
[ant: noninfectious]
3 of or relating to infection; "infectious
hospital"; "infectious disease"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- In the context of "pathology|of an illness": Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed.
- In the context of "of feelings and behaviour": Spreading
quickly from one person to another.
- Her enthusiasm for work is really infectious.
- In the context of "pathology|of a person": Able to infect others.
- The patient is still infectious.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
of an illness
- German: infektiös
of feelings and behaviour
- German: ansteckend
of a person, able to infect others
- German: infektiös
Extensive Definition
An infection is the detrimental
colonization of a host organization by a foreign species.
Infection may also refer to:
- "Infection" (Babylon 5), an episode of the television series Babylon 5
- Infection (film), the English title of the Japanese film Kansen
- Infection (podcast), a horror podcast novel by Scott Sigler
Infected, the adjective form of infection, may
also refer to:
- Infected with Martin Sargent, an Internet radio podcast
- Infected (video game), PlayStation Portable game published by Planet Moon Studios
- Infected, a 1986 album by The The
- "Infected, a single released in 1994 by Bad Religion
- Infected Mushroom, psychedelic trance duo
- Infected, a horror novel written by Scott Sigler, a modified version of his Infection podcast.
Infectious may refer to:
- Infectious Records, a record label
- Infectious, an album by Suburban Legends
infectious in Hebrew: זיהום
(פירושונים)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
catching, communicable, contagious, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, infective, inoculable, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, sporadic, spreading, sympathetic, taking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transmissible, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, zymotic