Definition of communicable
1
: capable of being communicated : transmittable
communicable diseases a communicable skin rash
— see also communicable disease
2
: communicative
prove myself a gentleman, by being … virtuous and communicable— Izaac Walton
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The first known use of communicable was circa 1533
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