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communalize |
communally |
commune |
commune with |
communicability |
communicable
| communicable disease
| communicant
| communicate
| communicate with
| communicating
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communicable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective communicable has 2 senses
- communicable(s = adj.all) catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable - (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection; Array
- communicable(s = adj.all) Array - readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
CIDE DICTIONARY
communicable, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.].
- Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. [1913 Webster]
- Communicative; free-speaking. B. Jonson.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
communicable, adj.
1 (esp. of a disease) able to be passed on.
2 archaic communicative.
1 (esp. of a disease) able to be passed on.
2 archaic communicative.
Derivative
communicability n. communicably adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF communicable or LL communicabilis (as COMMUNICATE)
THESAURUS
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, zymoticROGET THESAURUS
communicable
Giving
N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.
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