infective agent

1. 1.

   an agent capable of producing infection

   Synonymsinfectious agent

   Broaderagent

   Narrowerviruspathogen

Questions about infective agent

What does infective agent mean?

infective agent means "an agent capable of producing infection".

What is another word for infective agent?

Close synonyms include infectious agent. 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 infective agent a common word?

infective agent 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.