Communicable Definition
kə-myo͝onĭ-kə-bəl
adjective
Transmittable between persons or species; contagious.
Communicable diseases.
American Heritage Medicine
That can be communicated, as an idea.
Webster's New World
That can be transmitted, as a disease.
Webster's New World
Talkative.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- transmittable
- contagious
- catching
- transmissible
- contractable
- metathetic
- mailable
- impartable
- giveable
- expressable
- transportative
- transmissive
- transfusable
- portative
- conductive
Antonyms:
- incontractable
- noncommunicable
- noncontagious
Origin of Communicable
From Old French communicable.
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