contagious

• It is sometimes called contagious, infectious, and epizoötic pleuro-pneumonia,--contagious or infectious, from its supposed property of transmission from the diseased to the healthy animal Illustration: TAKING AN OBSERVATION A contagious character the author is not ready to assign to it,--contagious, as he understands it, being strictly applicable to those diseases which depend upon actual contact with the poison that it may be communicated from one animal to another. —  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
• Her fear as the evening went on became contagious, and the contagion took in my breast the form of a sudden panic. —  Embarrassments
• All mirth is not contagious, and he was easily able to refrain from joining in this I can't understand," said Miss Roset as she wiped a tear-dimmed eye--"I can't understand how you could have thought I should be so stupid I've been a fool," said the other, bitterly, as he retreated to the door. —  Short Cruises
• The disease was exceedingly contagious, and there was great difficulty in finding nurses who were willing to risk the contagion. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
• There was trees contagious, an' whins; sure wasn't I tellin' ye just now as I was settin' down by a bit of whin, sorr But it had been borne in on me that this had become a young man's job, so I succeeded, not without some difficulty, in consigning the gallant Royal Irishman--still pouring forth priceless intelligence material--into the hands of a messenger to be taken to the officer on duty. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the Same Context