| Pronunciation: | | ku'myoonukubul
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| Matching Terms: | | communicable disease
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- [adj] readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
- [adj] (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
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| | Synonyms: | | catching, communicative, communicatory, contagious, contractable, infectious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL.
communicabilis.]
1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a
communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
{Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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