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communicable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl/
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Etymology

From Old French communicable, Latin communicabilis.

Meanings

  1. (of a disease) Able to be transmitted between people or animals.
    • (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
  2. Readily communicated.
  3. Talkative or expansive.

Forms

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more communicable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most communicable Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

incommunicable · ineffable · nontransmissible · noncommunicable

Deriveds

uncommunicable · communicable disease · communicably · intercommunicable · noncommunicable · communicableness · communicable scale

Hypernyms

infectious

Hyponyms

contagious

Relateds

communicability

Synonyms

spreadable · transmissible · catching

Translations (16)

it trasmissibile (able to be transmitted between people or species) · gl comunicable (able to be transmitted between people or species) · fr communiquable (able to be transmitted between people or species) · ms berjangkit (able to be transmitted between people or species) · el μεταδόσιμος (able to be transmitted between people or species) · ca comunicable (able to be transmitted between people or species) · pl komunikowalny (able to be transmitted between people or species) · hu ragályos (able to be transmitted between people or species) · id menular (able to be transmitted between people or species) · es comunicable (able to be transmitted between people or species) · hu fertőző (able to be transmitted between people or species) · ja 伝染性の (able to be transmitted between people or species) · el μεταδοτικός (able to be transmitted between people or species) · id berjangkit (able to be transmitted between people or species) · fr communicable (able to be transmitted between people or species) · cs přenosný (able to be transmitted between people or species)