Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
Use in sentences of INFECTIOUS
Meaning of INFECTIOUS in English
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.