English-Polish translations for contagious

• zaraźliwy
  Niektórzy mówią, że kryzys jest zaraźliwy, brak jest jednak uzasadnienia ekonomicznego i racjonalnych podstaw, by tak twierdzić. Some people are saying that the crisis situation is contagious, but they do not have the economic justification or a rational basis to do so.
• zakaźny
  Placówka ta jest unijnym laboratorium referencyjnym, którego zadaniem ma być ochrona naszych zwierząt przed chorobami zakaźnymi, nie zaś wywoływanie epidemii przez swoją niekompetencję. This establishment is an EU reference laboratory which is supposed to protect our animals from contagious diseases and not to cause epidemics through incompetence.

Definition of contagious

• Easily transmitted to others
• Easily passed on to others
• Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person

Examples

• The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
• Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time
• They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people

Related words

• contagiousness
• contagiously
• noncontagious
• anticontagious
• contagious disease
• contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
• contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
• contagious ecthyma
• contagious skin necrosis