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Definition of Contagious
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

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

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton

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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