Transmissible

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be transmitted.; Capable of being transmitted from one person to another. not-comparable

    "(but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)"

  2. 2
    Able to be transmitted.; Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection wordnet
  2. 2
    inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent wordnet
  3. 3
    occurring among members of a family usually by heredity wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
ancestralcatchingcatchingcatchingcommunicablecommunicable

Example

More examples

"The British variant is so transmissible that it is crowding out other variants in many parts of the world."

Etymology

From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.

Related phrases

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

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