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Meaning of COMMUNICABLE

Pronunciation:  ku'myoonukubul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
  2. [adj]  (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
 
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 Synonyms: catching, communicative, communicatory, contagious, contractable, infectious, transmissible, transmittable
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL.
communicabilis.]
1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a
   communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
   {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv.
 
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