Definition

Adjective: - Contagious: Describes a disease or condition that can be transmitted from one person, animal, or organism to another through direct or indirect contact. It can also describe emotions, attitudes, or behaviors that spread quickly and easily from one person to another.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Bệnh cúm rất hay lây. (The flu is very contagious.)
  • Niềm vui của cô ấy thật sự hay lây. (Her joy is truly contagious.)
  • Hãy cẩn thận, bệnh đó có thể hay lây qua không khí. (Be careful, that disease can be contagious through the air.)

Advanced Usage

• "sự hay lây": The quality of being contagious; contagion.
  • Sự hay lây của thông tin sai lệch trên mạng xã hội là một vấn đề lớn. (The contagion of misinformation on social media is a major problem.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lây lan (verb): To spread, to transmit.
  • Virus lây lan rất nhanh trong cộng đồng. (The virus spread very quickly in the community.)
• Truyền nhiễm (adjective): Infectious, contagious (often used in more formal or medical contexts).
  • đơn vị bệnh truyền nhiễm (infectious disease unit)

Synonyms

• Dễ lây: Easily spread.
• Có tính lây truyền: Having transmissibility.

Related Phrases

• Bệnh hay lây: Contagious disease.
• Nụ cười hay lây: Contagious smile.
• Sự nhiệt tình hay lây: Contagious enthusiasm.

Related Idioms

• Hay lây như cúm: As contagious as the flu (used to emphasize how easily something spreads).
  • Tin đồn đó hay lây như cúm vậy. (That rumor spread like the flu / was as contagious as the flu.)

adjective

1. contagious