Chapter Consort to Contract of C by Soule's Synonymes

Contact, n. Touch, juxtaposition, junction, contiguity, close union.

Contagion, n.

1. Infection, communication of disease (by contact, direct or indirect).

2. Contagious matter, disease-germs, virus, contagium.

3. Contamination, taint, corruption, infection.

4. Pestilential influence, poisonous exhalations, pestilence, poisoned air.

Contagious, a.

1. Infectious, catching.

2. Pestilential, pestiferous, poisonous, deadly.

Contain, v. a.

1. Comprehend, comprise, embrace, include, embody.

2. Hold, have capacity for.

3. Restrain, keep in check.

Contain, v. n. Be continent, live in continence.

Contaminate, v. a. Defile, pollute, corrupt, taint, infect, poison, vitiate, sully, tarnish, soil, stain.

Contamination, n.

1. Contaminating, polluting, pollution, defiling, defilement, etc. See the verb.

2. Taint, stain, infection, impurity, foulness, uncleanness, abomination, pollution, defilement.

Contemn, v. a. Despise, disdain, scorn, scout, spurn, slight, hold in contempt, look down upon, turn a cold shoulder upon, turn up one’s nose at, snap one’s fingers at, laugh to scorn, point the finger of scorn at.

Contemplate, v. a.

1. Gaze upon, view attentively, look abroad upon, survey.