Hypertext Webster Gateway: "infective"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Infective \In*fect"ive\, a. [L. infectivus pertaining to
dyeing.]
Infectious. --Beau. & Fl.
True love . . . hath an infective power. --Sir P.
Sidney.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
infective
adj 1: able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic
bacteria" [syn: {morbific}, {pathogenic}]
2: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; viruses
and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective
without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn: {infectious}]
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