transmittable

adjective

1
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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2
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. — 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
  1. infectious
  2. transportable
  3. communicable
  4. transferable
  5. infective
  6. transmissible
Adjective
  • The necropsy found that Jackie had multiple conditions, including a type of infectious avian flu.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the pre-choruses, the chords and background vocals fill the spaces around Swift’s fragmented, stop-start lead vocal, creating an infectious call-and-response flow.
    — David Penn, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of infectious
Adjective
  • The radar is intended to provide continuous 360-degree coverage while combining long-range detection, target tracking, and a transportable configuration in a single system.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
  • These simple and easily transportable sliders guarantee you’ll be left with an empty dish.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of transportable
Adjective
  • Musculoskeletal disorders, especially low back pain; mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety; hearing loss, falls and other non-communicable accounted for about 57% of all years lived in poor health worldwide.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
  • Nonetheless, Khatima recorded a series of facts which indicated that the Black Death actually was communicable.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Definition of communicable
Adjective
  • The goal is not simply to automate work, but to ensure that the expertise accumulated across an organization becomes more accessible, transferable and impactful.
    — Dean Leavitt, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • NFTs—unique, transferable records on a blockchain, often linked through metadata to a digital image, animation, or piece of code—were established as stand-alone value units on Ethereum in 2018 and subsequently traded as digital art.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of transferable
Adjective
  • Sepsis can lead to a number of different complications, and Woodhouse developed infective endocarditis — an infection of the inner lining of the heart chambers and valves.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The team confirmed that those eggs developed into infective third-stage larvae.
    — Jay Kakade August 05, Refractor, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of infective
Adjective
  • Measles is one of the most transmissible infectious diseases.
    — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • That's a key sign of a transmissible cancer, researchers said, a rare phenomenon in which cancer cells survive outside their original host and spread to another animal.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 July 2026
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“Transmittable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmittable. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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