communicable

communicable
    adj 1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
           [syn: {catching}, {communicable}, {contagious},
           {contractable}, {transmissible}, {transmittable}]
    2: readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
    

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.
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   2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
      {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv.
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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