Infectuous or infectious

Did you mean “infectious”?

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Infectuous
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Infectious

Infectious

Adjective

Definition:

(of a disease or disease-causing organism) liable to be transmitted to people, animals, or plants through the environment

Examples:

  1. Outbreaks of infectious diseases
  2. Was polyneuritis infectious?
  3. A highly infectious virus

Synonyms:

  • Contagious
  • Communicable
  • Transmittable
  • Transmissible

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Is it infectuous or infectious?

The correct word is infectious

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