Definitions for "Infectious"
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious water; infectious vices.
Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
Caused by or capable of being communicated by infection.
Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
Relating to the ability to pass an infection from one person to another.
Transmissible from one animal to another.