Contagious vs Contiguous - What's the difference?
contagious | contiguous |
Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.
Of a fashion, laughter, etc., easily passed on to others.
Of a person, having a disease that can be transmitted to another person by touch.
connected; touching; abutting
adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
* 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
connecting without a break
* 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
As adjectives the difference between contagious and contiguous
is that contagious is of a disease, easily transmitted to others while contiguous is connected; touching; abutting.contagious
English
(wikipedia contagious)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Synonyms
* (of a disease) catching, infectious * infectiousAntonyms
* non-contagiousDerived terms
* contagiousness * contagioncontiguous
English
Adjective
(-)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.