Definition of Contagious

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Contagious

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.

Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

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Contagious Quotations

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert H. Humphrey

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren

Contagious Translations

contagious in Dutch is aanstekelijk, verpestend, besmettelijk
contagious in French is contagieux
contagious in German is ansteckend
contagious in Italian is contagioso
contagious in Spanish is contagioso
contagious in Swedish is smittosam

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