Definitions for infectious

infectious in·fec·tious

Spelling: [in-fek-shuh s]
IPA: /ɪnˈfɛk ʃəs/

Infectious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 534 anagrams from letters in infectious (cefiinostu).

Definitions for infectious

adjective

  1. communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another:
  2. causing or communicating infection.
  3. tending to spread from one to another:
  4. Law. capable of contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure or forfeiture.
  5. Obsolete. diseased.

Origin of infectious

First recorded in 1535-45; infect(ion) + -ious

Examples for infectious

It automatically cleanses the wound of any infectious matter.

Any time there is a new outbreak of infectious disease, it can be alarming.

Strict isolation of patients; good clinical care; and rapid, culturally sensitive disposal of infectious cadavers.

For most infectious, the amount is 100 or even 1,000 times that.

"Evidently, of an infectious fever as your Eminence so well says," he replied.

As the doctor declared it not infectious, I was allowed to nurse him.

Her happiness was infectious, and Sarah turned to her visitor with an amused smile.

Adam Lausing, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan, emphasized that Ebola is not a respiratory disease.

The only existing study, printed in the Journal of infectious Diseases in 1999, leaves scientists with the same questions.

The laugh was so infectious that even Brown was obliged to smile.

Word Value for infectious
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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