Meaning Of Infectious

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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.

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Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.

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Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.

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Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.