sexually transmitted disease

1. 1.

   a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

   Synonymsvenereal diseaseVDvenereal infectionsocial diseaseCupid's itchCupid's diseaseVenus's cursedoseSTD

   Broadercontagious disease

   Narrowergenital herpesgonorrheagranuloma inguinalesyphilislymphogranuloma venereumchlamydia

Questions about sexually transmitted disease

What does sexually transmitted disease mean?

sexually transmitted disease means "a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact".

What is another word for sexually transmitted disease?

Close synonyms include venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch. 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 sexually transmitted disease a common word?

sexually transmitted 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.