contagious
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Is contagious a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of a disease) Easily transmitted to others.Examples: "Last year's flu strain was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!"Antonyms: noncontagious, noncommunicable, nontransmissible
2. (figurative) Easily passed on to others.Examples: "contagious enthusiasm; infectious laughter"; "Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time."; "The taverns of our ancestors would ill bear contrasting with the clubs of to-day; but many a gay midnight was past in the former:—midnights, whose mirth has descended even to us; half the jests, whose gaiety is still contagious; half the epigrams, whose point is yet felt, were born of those brief and brilliant hours."Synonyms: infectious, spreadablefiguratively
3. (of a person) Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.Examples: "They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people."
Definition source: Wiktionary