contagious

1. 1.

   easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

   “a contagious grin”

   Similarinfectious
2. 2.

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Synonymscatchingcommunicablecontractabletransmissibletransmittable

   Similarinfectious

Questions about contagious

What does contagious mean?

contagious means "easily diffused or spread as from one person to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contagious?

contagious has 3 syllables: con-ta-gious. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /kənˈteɪdʒəs/.

What is another word for contagious?

Close synonyms include catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contagious a common word?

contagious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with contagious?

2 words rhyme with contagious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.