communicable

English

Etymology

From Old French communicable, Latin communicabilis.

Adjective

communicable (comparative more communicable, superlative most communicable)

1. (epidemiology, of a disease) Able to be transmitted between people or animals.

   Hypernym: infectious

   Synonyms: transmissible, spreadable, catching (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)

   Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable

   Hyponym: contagious

2. Readily communicated.

   Antonyms: incommunicable, ineffable

3. Talkative or expansive.

Derived terms

• communicable disease
• communicable scale
• noncommunicable

 

Related terms

• communicability

Translations

able to be transmitted between people or species

• Czech: přenosný (cs)
• French: communicable (fr), communiquable (fr)
• Galician: comunicable (gl)
• Greek: μεταδόσιμος (el) m (metadósimos), μεταδοτικός (el) m (metadotikós)
• Hungarian: fertőző (hu), ragályos (hu)
• Italian: trasmissibile (it)
• Japanese: 伝染性の (densensei no)
• Malay: berjangkit
• Spanish: comunicable (es)

French

Etymology

From communiquer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.ni.kabl/

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Adjective

communicable (plural communicables)

1. communicable

Further reading

• “communicable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.