highly infective

1. 1.

   (of a microorganism) extremely infective

   “a highly infective organism”

   Similarvirulent

   microorganism

Questions about highly infective

What does highly infective mean?

highly infective means "(of a microorganism) extremely infective".

Is highly infective a common word?

highly infective 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.