Synonyms for contagious
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Epidemic — easily passed on to others
infectious, epidemic, pestilential, poisonous, spreadable, pestiferous
2. Transmittable
communicable, catching informal, transmittable, transmissible, contractable
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Easily passed on to others.
contagious enthusiasm; infectious laughter
- adj. 2
Easily transmitted to others.
Last year's flu strain was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
Related words
- Word family
- contagion contagiously contagiousness
- Phrases
- contagious abortion
- Is a kind of
- infectious communicable transmissible spreadable catching
Example sentences
- epidemic Wuhan is the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic.
- poisonous It was once believed that tomatoes were poisonous.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| contagious | rising | |
| epidemic | rising | |
| poisonous | steady | |
| pestilential | steady | |
| pestiferous | steady | |
| transmittable | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- deadly2
- 8 letters
- catching2, epidemic4
- 9 letters
- poisonous3
- 10 letters
- infectious3, spreadable
- 11 letters
- pestiferous
- 12 letters
- communicable5, pestilential, contractable
- 13 letters
- transmissible, transmittable4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deadly2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- contagieux
- Italiano
- contagioso
- Català
- contagiós