'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]