CONTAGIOUS Synonyms

• (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

• the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

• becoming infected

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

• easily spread

• of or relating to infection

• caused by infection or capable of causing infection

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

• readily communicated

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

• occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

• inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

• (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously

• a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

• process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space

• the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

• act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time

• capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

• legally transferable to the ownership of another

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection