1.
[syn: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable]
2. readily communicated;
- Example: "communicable ideas"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
communicable
adj 1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
[syn: catching, communicable, contagious,
contractable, transmissible, transmittable]
2: readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "communicable":
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