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communicable
[ kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-buhl ]
adjective
- capable of being easily communicated or transmitted:
communicable information; a communicable disease.
- talkative; communicative.
communicable
/ kəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl /
adjective
- capable of being communicated
- (of a disease or its causative agent) capable of being passed on readily
communicable
/ kə-myo̅o̅′nĭ-kə-bəl /
- Capable of being transmitted from a person or animal to another person or animal, either through direct or indirect transmission, including insect or other vectors. Chickenpox is a communicable disease.
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Derived Forms
- comˌmunicaˈbility, noun
- comˈmunicably, adverb
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Other Words From
- com·muni·ca·bili·ty com·muni·ca·ble·ness noun
- com·muni·ca·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of communicable1
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Example Sentences
Because the music here is so free, so joyous, so relaxed that all its pleasures are instantly communicable.
That said, SARS is much more communicable than Ebola, meaning it is easier to catch.
Hunt said the state is seeking to treat the disease as all other communicable diseases are treated.
“Transnational corporations are major drivers of the global epidemic of NCDs [non-communicable diseases],” said the researchers.
Non-Communicable Diseases, which will attempt to address the latest threat to global health.
It is communicable by inoculation, but it is very doubtful that the disease has been communicated from man to man.
But the outcome has to be expressed in words if it is to be communicable.
The moral wisdom of the man is not communicable to women, so far as it partakes of rational wisdom, 168.
These are the symptoms of blood-poisoning, vividly portrayed; of some contagion, communicable by infection.
There was a report on the birth-rate, the death-rate, the anomaly-rate, and a breakdown of all reported communicable diseases.
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