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Contagious   /kəntˈeɪdʒəs/   Listen
Contagious

adjective
1.
Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another.
2.
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.  Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable.



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"Contagious" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hotel. For the first time in her life I saw Amelia really nervous as I handed the stones to Charles to examine. Her doubt was contagious. I half feared, myself, he might break out into a deep monosyllabic interjection, losing his temper in haste, as he often does when things go wrong. But he looked at them with a smile, while ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice. Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts;—and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries;—but above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not mis-spell, and mis-pronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the ...
— The Rivals - A Comedy • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... said Benoix, quietly. "I've my parish to think of. The girl's a plague-spot. Vice is as contagious as any other disease. Besides, it 's a question of her own safety. She's been threatened. ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... contagious. It had never previously occurred to me to undertake the game of exploration; but, like most American boys, I had had youthful dreams of going into a great wild country, even as my forefathers had ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace
... is he who liveth near this wise man! Such sleep is contagious—even through a thick ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche


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