Hyphenation of CONTAGIOUS

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word CONTAGIOUS? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

CON-TA-GIOUS

Definitions of CONTAGIOUS:

1.	Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another A contagious grin
2.	(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Synonyms of CONTAGIOUS:

adj	communicable disease
adj	infectious
adj	catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable, infectious

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.