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Contagious   /kəntˈeɪdʒəs/   Listen
Contagious

adjective
1.
Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another.
2.
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.  Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable.



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"Contagious" Quotes from Famous Books



... lieutenant's anxiety about the young officer of the White Hawk was growing more and more contagious, and the men gave a cheer as they span the boat along, every smart sailor on board thinking about the frank, straightforward lad who had so bravely gone on ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn
... exact words of what was said after this, but I said that it seemed to me that most people were afraid not to know everything. Not knowing too much is a natural gift, and unless a man can make his ignorance contagious—inspire people with the books he dares not read—of course the only thing he can do is to give up and read everything, and belong to Society. He certainly cannot belong to himself unless he protects himself with well-selected, carefully guarded, daring ...
— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee
... produced a silent disapproval. As he said, if she didn't sniff, she looked as if she felt a cold coming on. She knew it herself and took great pains; but it coloured her tone, if not her words. Too often she was merely silent when he was very much himself. Silence is contagious: they passed a whole dinner ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... had called a halt in her performances in the line of contagious diseases, for since the scarlet fever scare she had quit frightening the family into spasms, and at fifteen was as charming, healthy, and tantalizing a bit of girlhood as one could wish to see, though about as much of a ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... the previous stories of the Boy Inventors, new and interesting triumphs of mechanism are produced which become immediately valuable, and the stage for their proving and testing is again the water. On the surface and below it, the boys have jolly, contagious fun, and the story of their serious, purposeful inventions challenge ...
— A Sweet Little Maid • Amy E. Blanchard


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