Synonyms for communicable
kəˈmyu nɪ kə bəlcom·mu·ni·ca·ble

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1. communicableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incommunicable

2. communicableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incommunicable

3. communicableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incommunicable

4. communicableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incommunicable

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1. catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableadjective

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Synonyms:
   inherited, genetic, contagious, transmittable, ancestral, catching, hereditary, patrimonial, familial, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   incommunicative, noninfectious, uncommunicative

2. communicableadjective

   readily communicated

   "communicable ideas"

   Synonyms:
   transmittable, transmissible, contractable, catching, contagious

   Antonyms:
   uncommunicative, incommunicative, noninfectious

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1. List of paraphrases for "communicable":

   transmissible, contagious, infectious, transmittable, transferable, transmitted

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1. Peter Hotez:

   So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.

2. Shawna Lawton:

   They're trying to take away my choice as a parent, how can they require this? It's not a disease that's communicable in classrooms.

3. Elizabeth Hoff:

   The main concern is of course communicable diseases, but also trauma cases. We have more than 25,000 newly injured per month in Syria and the system is overburdened, this conflict is happening in densely populated areas, that's why have you have so high a number of injured compared to many other wars.

4. Diana Menya:

   To prevent a disease, we have to take action. We have eradicated many conditions, and especially infectious diseases, so can we not eradicate non-communicable diseases like cancer ? this is going to sound quite ambitious, but for me the best endgame will be a cancer-free Kenya by preventing cancers from occurring in the first place -- catching it before it catches the patients.

5. Terry Pratchett:

   Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.