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. Bayard Roberts:

   Traditionally the focus has been on communicable (infectious) disease and maternal and child care.

2. Alan Weil:

   When you get to a highly communicable disease, that's when we all suffer the consequences, my fate is very much tied to everyone else's fate.

3. 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.

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. Niyati Parekh:

   People are forgetting the connection between the pandemic and some of the non-communicable diseases and obesity.