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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contagious (disease) |
| Synonyms: | communicable, dangerous, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, infectious, infective, miasmatic, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, taking, transferable, transmittable |
| Antonyms: | uncontagious |
| Main Entry: | contagious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
| Synonyms: | catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable |
| Notes: | diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread by air or water are infectious |
| Antonyms: | noncommunicable |
| 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: | taking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicative, contagious, expansive, infectious, pandemic, transferable, transmittable |
| Main Entry: | taking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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| Concept: | Taking. |
| Category: | 2. Transfer of Property |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
taking; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic., bereft.
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| Antonyms: | restitution |
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