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infectious 音标拼音: [ɪnf'ɛkʃəs] a. 有传染性的,易传染的 有传染性的,易传染的 infectious adj 1: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; " viruses and other infective agents"; " a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease" [ synonym: { infectious}, { infective}] 2: easily spread; " fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell [ ant: { noninfectious}] 3: of or relating to infection; " infectious hospital"; " infectious disease" Infectious \ In* fec" tious\, a. [ Cf. F. infectieux.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious water; infectious vices. [ 1913 Webster] Where the infectious pestilence. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing. [ 1913 Webster] It [ the court] is necessary for the polishing of manners . . . but it is infectious even to the best morals to live always in it. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster] Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. -- Kent. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. [ 1913 Webster] The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious. -- W. Black. Syn: See { Contagious}. [ 1913 Webster] 40 Moby Thesaurus words for " infectious": catching, communicable, contagious, deadly, destructive, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, infective, inoculable, irresistible, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, noxious, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, sporadic, spreading, sympathetic, taking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, transmissible, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, zymotic
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