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communicable

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com·mu·ni·ca·ble  (k-myn-k-bl)
adj.
1. Transmittable between persons or species; contagious: communicable diseases.
2. Readily communicated: communicable ideas.
3. Talkative.
com·muni·ca·bili·ty, com·muni·ca·ble·ness n.
com·muni·ca·bly adv.
communicable
Adjective
1. capable of being communicated
2. (of a disease) capable of being passed on easily
communicable  (k-myn-k-bl)
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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.communicablecommunicable - (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
catching, contractable, transmissible, transmittable, contagious
infectious - easily spread; "fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
2.communicable - readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray
communicable
adjective infectious, catching, contagious, transferable, transmittable
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With a favor to ask we review our list of friends, do justice to their more amiable qualities, forgive their little offenses, and concerning each in turn, try to arrive at the conclusion that he will be eager to oblige us, our own eagerness to be obliged being as communicable as other warmth.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
So I went on for some days cutting and hewing timber, and also studs and rafters, all with my narrow axe, not having many communicable or scholar-like thoughts, singing to myself, --
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
To be communicable it must become picture or sensible object.
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