contagious

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

con·ta·gious BrE [kənˈteɪdʒəs] NAmE [kənˈteɪdʒəs] adjective
1. a contagious disease spreads by people touching each other
•Scarlet fever is highly contagious.
• (figurative)His enthusiasm was contagious (= spread quickly to other people).
•a contagious laugh
2. not usually before noun if a person is contagious, they have a disease that can be spread to other people by touch
compare ↑infectious
Derived Word: ↑contagiously

Word Origin:
[contagious contagiously] late Middle English: from late Latin contagiosus, from contagio, from con- ‘together with’ + the base of tangere ‘to touch’.

Example Bank:
•The new disease proved contagious.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable