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infectious
 
Adjective infectious has 3 senses
  1. infectious, infective - caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"
    Antonym: antiseptic (indirect, via septic)
  2. infectious - easily spread; "fear is exceedlingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
    Antonyms:     noninfectious, noncommunicable, noncontagious, nontransmissible
  3. infectious - of or relating to infection; "infectious hospital"; "infectious disease"
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