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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[.a]*b'l), a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.]
1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, noun -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
communicable
adjective
1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: {catching}, {contagious}, {contractable}, {transmissible}, {transmittable}]
2: readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, zymotic
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