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What is the adjective for infect?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb infect which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

infectious
  1. (pathology, of an illness) Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed.
  2. (pathology, of a person) Able to infect others.
  3. (of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.
  4. (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “However, conjunctivitis caused by the common cold is very infectious and can spread rapidly between people.”
      “A few of them are viral pathogens, bacterial and fungal agents, and infectious toxins that cause a variety of fatal diseases.”
      “He devoured ideas with an insatiable curiosity and then pursued them with unbounded energy and infectious enthusiasm.”
infective
infectible
  1. Able to be infected; capable of infection.
infectable
  1. Able to infect or to become infected
infectional
  1. Relating to infection.
infected
  1. Having an infection.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There will be an obvious visible white mycelial mat, and it's also possible that mushrooms will grow at the base of an infected tree.”
      “She bounced before me in an absurd fashion, scratching at her slinky, bare stomach just below the hem of her belly shirt, where an infected and pus-filled red blotch was trying to heal.”
      “The bulk of the evidence strongly suggests that the infected water was pumped into the drinking-water tank.”
infect
  1. (obsolete) Infected.
infecting
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