contagious

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Passing on illness & causing disease
aerosolize
avirulent
communicability
community transmission
contact tracer
contagion
contagious
epidemic
fester
infect
infestation
interepidemic
interpandemic
mediastinum
non-communicable
skin to skinidiom
spreader
super-spreader
transferable
transmissibility

catching | American Dictionary

catching
adjective
us/ˈkætʃ·ɪŋ, ˈketʃ-/
(of an illness) able to be given to someone else:
I’ve got a rash, but I don’t think it’s catching.