Word of the Day: Contagious

contagious

con-ta-gious / kən-tā-jəs

adjective

1. of a disease, capable of being transmitted through direct or indirect contact; communicable

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 – 1832

2. carrying or able to spread a disease

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.

Barbara Kingsolver. 1955 –

3. easily spread to others; infectious

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 – 1834