communicable

Speech parts

1. communicable - Adjective

2. communicable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

Communicative; free-speaking.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

catching contagious transmissible transmittable contractable current taking accepted absolute transmitted abundant portable spreading endemic deadly
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Antonyms

basic brief compact diminished benign deficient
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Related terms

communicability

Phrases with the word

communicable nature communicable illness non-communicable disease non-communicable illness

Examples

Misery is a communicable disease. Martha Graham

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. Terry Pratchett

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. Ned Rorem

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. André Breton

Knowledge when acquired must be thrown into logical form and we are obliged to adopt the language of logic since only logic has a communicable language. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The mark of a great writer: who sees his own time, but with a detachment that makes him communicable to other ages. Northrop Frye

Close letter words and terms

communer communic acid communicability communicable disease communicable illness communicable nature