infectious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈfɛk.ʃəs/    美 /ɪnˈfɛk.ʃəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
    — Cancer is usually not infectious.
  2. Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
    — Despite feeling better, the patient is still infectious.
  3. Spreading quickly from one person to another.
    — infectious smile
  4. Memorable and invoking excitement or interest. informal
    — Pop music is more infectious than elevator music.

词形变化

more infectious comparative most infectious superlative

词汇关系

反义词
non-infectious noninfectious
衍生词
agroinfectious antiinfectious bovine infectious petechial fever feline infectious peritonitis hyperinfectious infection infectious abortion infectious agent infectious bovine rhinotracheitis infectious disease infectious disease specialist infectiously infectious mononucleosis infectiousness neuroinfectious parainfectious postinfectious preinfectious pseudoinfectious reinfectious subinfectious superinfectious toxicoinfectious uninfectious

词源

Borrowed from New Latin īnfectiōsus. By surface analysis, infect + -ious.
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