Infection-free

Showing no detected infection at a stated time and under a stated assessment.

Reach for it when reporting a bounded clinical or agricultural status without predicting the future

The incision remained infection-free at the two-week review.

• everyday

  clear

  a current check found no sign of the condition

  not when Clear is ambiguous and can imply cure without naming what was assessed.

• warm

  healthy

  overall condition is good

  not when Healthy is broad and cannot establish that a particular infection is absent.

• professional

  sterile

  a sample or surface contains no viable microorganisms under a test

  not when Sterile is much stronger and not equivalent to absence of clinical infection.

• professional

  uninfected

  no infection is present in the person, tissue, or sample

  not when Uninfected may be based on observation and still depends on test sensitivity and timing.

• formal

  asymptomatic

  no symptoms are currently present

  not when An asymptomatic person can still carry an infection.

• infected
• contaminated
• symptomatic

• remain infection-free

  The wound remained infection-free through the documented follow-up period.

• infection-free status

  A negative test supported infection-free status on the sampling date.

• infection-free recovery

  The report recorded an infection-free recovery after six weeks of observation.

Infection-free is time-bound and test-bound. It does not mean future infection is impossible or that every pathogen was assessed.

Infection-free is not a headword in the dictionaries below. The sense was checked against their entries for infection, and the definition and example here are written for Infection-free itself.

• Merriam-Webster, the entry for infection, noun sense 1: invasion by disease-producing agents ↗opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.