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  • English Word Infection Definition The act or process of infecting.
  • English Word Infection Definition That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
  • English Word Infection Definition The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
  • English Word Infection Definition That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
  • English Word Infection Definition Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
  • English Word Infection Definition Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
  • English Word Infectious Definition Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
  • English Word Infectious Definition Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
  • English Word Infectious Definition Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
  • English Word Infectious Definition Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
  • English Word Infectiously Definition In an infectious manner.
  • English Word Infectiousness Definition The quality of being infectious.
  • English Word Infective Definition Infectious.
  • English Word Infecund Definition Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
  • English Word Infecundity Definition Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
  • English Word Infecundous Definition Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.
  • English Word Infeeble Definition See Enfeeble.
  • English Word Infelicities Definition of Infelicity
  • English Word Infelicitous Definition Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.
  • English Word Infelicity Definition The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.
  • English Word Infelicity Definition That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.
  • English Word Infelonious Definition Not felonious, malignant, or criminal.
  • English Word Infelt Definition Felt inwardly; heartfelt.
  • English Word Infeodation Definition See Infeudation.
  • English Word Infeoff Definition See Enfeoff.
  • English Word Infeoffment Definition See Enfeoffment.
  • English Word Infer Definition To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
  • English Word Infer Definition To offer, as violence.
  • English Word Infer Definition To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
  • English Word Infer Definition To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.