Word.ws English Dictionary

coinfected

coinfected adjective: simultaneously infected by two or more organisms.

Adjective

coinfected (not comparable)

  1. Simultaneously infected by two or more organisms.
    • There is much concern about syphilis altering its course in people coinfected with HIV.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 9

Origin of coinfected

From co- + infected.

Questions about coinfected

What does coinfected mean?
Coinfected means simultaneously infected by two or more organisms.
What part of speech is coinfected?
Coinfected is an adjective.

Words near coinfected in the dictionary

  1. coiners
  2. coines
  3. coinfect
  4. coinfectant
  5. coinfectants
  6. coinfected
  7. coinfecting
  8. coinfection
  9. coinfections
  10. coinfective
  11. coinfects

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coinfected (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “coinfected.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coinfected. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.