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as in infectious
capable of being passed by physical contact from one person to another
that disease is only transmittable through direct contact with an infected person, not through contact with something the infected person has touched
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as in transportable
capable of being taken from one place to another by public carrier
I doubt that fireworks are legally transmittable through the mail
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Recent Examples of transmittable
That doesn’t sound like an outbreak of the highly transmittable bubonic plague.
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James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
The findings are a reminder that animals carry diseases that are transmittable to humans.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
But even passengers who take precautions to avoid transmittable illnesses can be subject to the oldest of seagoing maladies—the old mal de mer, or seasickness, chief among them.
—Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2024
James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
The findings are a reminder that animals carry diseases that are transmittable to humans.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
But even passengers who take precautions to avoid transmittable illnesses can be subject to the oldest of seagoing maladies—the old mal de mer, or seasickness, chief among them.
—Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmittable
Adjective
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Travolta’s infectious enthusiasm carried over into the movie itself, a semi-autobiographical trifle about his childhood love of air travel.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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His humor, and especially his laugh, was infectious.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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By creating smaller, transportable units, the researchers aim to provide power to locations that are difficult to reach with traditional electrical grids.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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She's got to be at mid-size, but not huge; portable, transportable, that kind of thing.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
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Infected by the communicable Ebola virus while treating patients in Liberia, Brantly became the first person in the U.S. to have the disease and one of the first to survive it, along with his colleague and aid worker Nancy Writebol, who arrived three days later.—
Suzanne Van Atten,
AJC.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, diseases may be communicable (contagious) or noncommunicable; of the latter, the four major types identified by the World Health Organization are cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes mellitus.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The more transferable lesson is that contrarian positioning during an industry's low point, combined with structural patience, could offer a genuine and repeatable competitive advantage.—
Jayden Wei,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Surrogacy contracts that treat preborn lives as transferable goods should be outlawed.—
Kimberly Bird,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2026
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His provisional cause of death was given as multi-organ failure due to infective endocarditis, a rare infection of the inner lining or valves of the heart.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 July 2024
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Andes is found in South America, specifically Argentina and Chile, and person-to-person transmission has been associated only with close and prolonged contact during the early phase of illness, when the virus is more transmissible.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The human-transmissible strain of hantavirus is not very infectious, requiring prolonged contact with someone already suffering symptoms.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
18 May 2026
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“Transmittable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmittable. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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