Infective

Definitions: Infective

Infective

Adjective

1. Able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria".

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".

Etymology: Infective \In*fect"ive\, adjective. [Latin expression infectivus pertaining to dyeing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Infective

Synonyms: infectious (adj), morbific (adj), pathogenic (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	An Atlas of Infective Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Management (reference) Infective Endocarditis and Other Intravascular Infections (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Buboes are due to the swelling of lymph nodes after they've absorbed infective material as seen here in a case of plague.Credit: CDC.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The eggs soon develop into infective larvae. (references)
		The eggs require several weeks to develop and become infective. (references)
		Newly deposited eggs take at least 2-4 weeks to become infective. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Infective" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Infective" is used about 113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	113	30,464

Expression using "infective": highly infective. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "infective": anti-infective, non-infective.
	Containing "infective": Anti-Infective Agents.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "infective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		molepsës (infectious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, transmissible). (various references)

Arabic		‏معدى (alternative, infected, stomachic). (various references)

Chinese		� �"性 (Contagious, Contagiously). (various references)

Danish		infektionssten (infective calculus, infective stone), infektions-hilus (infective hilus), infektiøst agens (causative agent, infective agent), infektiøs pancreatitis (infective pancreatitis), infektiøs gastrit (infective gastritis), infektiøs asthma (infective asthma), smitteevne (infective capacity), smitsomme sygdomme (communicable disease, contagious disease, infectious disease, infective disease), middel mod infektioner i tarmkanal (intestinal anti-infective). (various references)

Dutch		infectieuze gastritis (infective gastritis), infectieuze asthma (infective asthma), infectieuse dosis 50 (ID 50, infective dose 50), infectiekiem (causative agent, infective agent), ID 50 (ID 50, infective dose 50), ziekteverwekkend vermogen (infective capacity), pathogeniteit (infective capacity, pathogenicity), darmontstekingswerend middel (intestinal anti-infective). (various references)

Finnish		patogeenisuus (infective capacity). (various references)

French		contagieux (infectious). (various references)

German		infektiös (catching, contagious, infectious), ansteckend (catching, contagious, contagiously, infecting, infectious, infectiously, infectively, miasmal). (various references)

Greek		μολυσματικόσ (contagious, infectious). (various references)

Italian		potere patogeno (infective capacity), partita infetta di funghi (infective stock of fungi), malattia infettiva (infectious disease, infective disease), gastrite acuta infettiva (infective gastritis), endocardite acuta infettiva (infective acute endocarditis), antiinfettivo intestinale (intestinal anti-infective), agente infettivo (causative agent, infective agent). (various references)

Korean		� �염하�" (infectious). (various references)

Pig Latin		infectiveay

Portuguese		infectado (contaminate, infect, tainted), infeccioso (absorbing, catching, contagious, infectious, stunner, taking). (various references)

Romanian		infectat (infectious), infecţios (catching, infectious), transmisibil (catching, contagious, infectious, inheritable, transmissible), molipsitor (cankerous, catching, contagious, foul, infectious, taking), contagios (catching, contagious, foul, infectious, pestilent, pestilential). (various references)

Spanish		infectante (infectious), infeccioso (infectious). (various references)

Swedish		sjukdomsalstrande förmåga (infective capacity), patogenitet (infective capacity), aggressivitet (infective capacity). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้ติ�"เชื้อไ�"้. (various references)

Ukranian		інфекційний (contagious, infectious). (various references)

Vietnamese		lây (infectious), dễ lây (infectious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "infective": noninfective. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Infective" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infectives, injective, insectival. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "infective" (pronounced i'nfe"ktiv)
6	-f e" k t i v	affective, defective, effective, ineffective.
5	-e" k t i v	collective, connective, corrective, detective, directive, elective, introspective, invective, irrespective, objective, perspective, projective, prospective, protective, reflective, respective, retrospective, selective, subjective.
4	-k t i v	active, addictive, adjective, attractive, conductive, constructive, counterproductive, destructive, distinctive, hyperactive, inactive, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, nonproductive, obstructive, octave, overactive, photoconductive, predictive, proactive, productive, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, refractive, reproductive, restrictive, retroactive, seductive, superconductive, unattractive, unproductive, vindictive.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-i-n-t-v"
	-2 letters: fictive, invitee.
	-3 letters: entice, evince, finite, incite, infect, invite.
	-4 letters: civet, civie, event, evict, evite, feint, fence, ficin, niece, nieve, vinic.
	-5 letters: cent, cete, cine, cite, etic, even, feet, fete, fice, fine, five, inti, neif, neve, nevi, nice, nite, teen, tine, vein, vent, vice, vine.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-i-n-t-v"
	+1 letter: inflective.
	+2 letters: fictiveness, ineffective.
	+3 letters: noninfective.
	+4 letters: fictivenesses, ineffectively, infectivities.
	+5 letters: antireflective.
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