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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be contracted |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicative, contagious, expansive, infectious, pandemic, taking, transferable, transmittable |
| Antonyms: | incontractable, noncommunicable, noncontagious |
| Main Entry: | communicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | candid, chatty, communicable, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, forthcoming, frank, garrulous, gushing, loquacious, open, outgoing, talkative, unreserved, voluble |
| Antonyms: | close-mouthed, reserved, reticent, unfriendly, uninformative, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Antonyms: | limited |
| Main Entry: | infectious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catching, spreading |
| Synonyms: | communicable, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, defiling, diseased, epidemic, infective, mephitic, miasmic, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, poisoning, polluting, toxic, transferable, transmittable, virulent, vitiating |
| Notes: | diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread by air or water are infectious |
| Antonyms: | antiseptic, germless, harmless, non-infectious, uncommunicable, uncontagious |
| Main Entry: | extraverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outgoing |
| Synonyms: | communicable, communicative, convivial, extraversive, extravertive, extroversive, extroverted, extrovertive, friendly, gregarious, sociable, social, unreserved |
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