contagious disease

1. 1.

   any disease easily transmitted by contact

   Synonymscontagion

   Broadercommunicable disease

   Narrowerinfluenzameaslesdiphtheriascarlet feverpoxVincent's anginavenereal disease

Questions about contagious disease

What does contagious disease mean?

contagious disease means "any disease easily transmitted by contact".

What is another word for contagious disease?

Close synonyms include contagion. 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 disease a common word?

contagious disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.