- 1an infectious disease can be passed easily from one person to another, especially through the air they breathe The flu is highly infectious. (figurative) infectious laughter
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- 2[not usually before noun] if a person or an animal is infectious, they have a disease that can be spread to others I'm still infectious. compare contagious
adverb to laugh infectiously
noun [uncountable]See infectious in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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