communicable

(kə-myū'nĭ-kə-bəl)
adj.

1. Transmittable between persons or species; contagious: communicable diseases.
2. Readily communicated: communicable ideas.
3. Talkative.

communicability com·mu'ni·ca·bil'i·ty or com·mu'ni·ca·ble·ness n.
communicably com·mu'ni·ca·bly adv.

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adjective

1. Capable of transmission by infection: catching, contagious, infectious, taking. See move/halt.
2. Disposed to be open, sociable, and talkative: communicative, expansive, extraverted, extroverted, gregarious, outgoing, unreserved. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.

adj

Definition: able to be contracted
Antonyms: incontractable, noncommunicable, noncontagious

IN BRIEF: Something that can be passed on to another.

Is love a communicable condition?

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Transmissibility; ability to spread from infected to susceptible hosts.

• c. period — the time during which the patient is infectious to others.

For a list of words related to communicable, see:

• Diagnostic Terminology - communicable: (adj) designating disease that can be transmitted from one person to another by physical contact, a carrier, or droplets exhaled into air

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - smitsom, som kan meddeles videre, meddelsom

Nederlands (Dutch)
overdraagbaar, besmettelijk

Français (French)
adj. - communicable, (Méd) contagieux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - kommunizierbar, übertragbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ανακοινώσιμος, μεταδόσιμος, (για ασθένειες) μεταδοτικός, κολλητικός

Italiano (Italian)
trasmissibile, infettivo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - comunicável

Русский (Russian)
сообщаемый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - comunicable, transmisible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - som lätt kan meddelas, smittsam

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
可传达的, 爱说话的, 会传染的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 可傳達的, 愛說話的, 會傳染的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 전염성의, 개방적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 伝達できる, 伝染性の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ينتقل بالعدوى, قابل للتعبير عنه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עובר, מידבק‬

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