'Communicable' definitions:
Definition of 'communicable'
From: WordNet
adjective
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable]
adjective
Readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
Definition of 'Communicable'
From: GCIDE
- Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[.a]*b'l), a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.]
- 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'communicable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allowable,
- assignable,
- bequeathable,
- bestowable,
- catching,
- conductive,
- consignable,
- contagious,
- conveyable,
- deadly,
- destructive,
- devisable,
- endemic,
- envenomed,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- expansive,
- expressable,
- giveable,
- impartable,
- infectious,
- infective,
- inoculable,
- interchangeable,
- mailable,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mephitic,
- metathetic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- movable,
- noxious,
- pandemic,
- pestiferous,
- pestilential,
- poisonous,
- portable,
- portative,
- presentable,
- removable,
- sporadic,
- spreading,
- taking,
- toxic,
- toxicant,
- toxiferous,
- transferable,
- transfusable,
- transmissible,
- transmissive,
- transmittable,
- transportable,
- transportative,
- transposable,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- virulent,
- zymotic
Words containing 'Communicable'
- Communicability,
- Communicableness,
- Communicably,
- Communicant,
- Communicate,
- Communicated,
- Communicating,
- Communication,
- Communicative,
- Communicativeness,
- Communicator,
- communicate with,
- communicational,
- communications,
- Confidential communication,
- Privileged communication,
- animal communication,
- anomalous communication,
- auditory communication,
- communicable disease,
- communicating artery,
- communication channel,
- communication equipment,
- communication system,
- communication theory,
- communication trench,
- communications intelligence,
- communications protocol,
- communications satellite,
- communications technology,
- data communication,
- digital communication,
- electronic communication,
- linguistic communication,
- oral communication,
- paralinguistic communication,
- phatic communication,
- psychic communication,
- psychical communication,
- speech communication,
- spoken communication,
- visual communication,
- voice communication,
- written communication,
- Self-communicative,
- communications security establishment,
- digital communications technology,
- federal communications commission,
- marital communications privilege,
- inter-group communication