1 a contagious disease spreads by people touching each other:
Scarlet fever is highly contagious. * (figurative) His enthusiasm was contagious (= spread quickly to other people). * a contagious laugh
2 [notusuallybeforenoun] if a person is contagious, they have a disease that can be spread to other people by touch
compareINFECTIOUS
contagiously adverb
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