Infective

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  • adjective. Capable of producing infection; infectious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a nature to infect or affect injuriously; injurious.
  • Infectious; tending to communicate or spread, or capable of communicating, infection.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Infectious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Able to cause infection; infectious
  • noun. A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. able to cause disease
  • adjective. caused by infection or capable of causing infection
    • Word Usage
    "This condition, called infective endocarditis, is the reason why patients with heart valve problems are advised to take antibiotics before dental procedures."
    Equivalent
    infected  septic  unhealthful  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    affective  anti-infective  collective  connective  convective  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    causative  countrywide  disease-causing  dragon-fly  free-swimming  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    infectious  
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