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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection;
[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