communicable
Other forms: communicably
A cold is a communicable disease, i.e. it's contagious, so you can pass it on to others. If you are a politician, your basic message should be communicable or communicated easily to others.
Whether a cold or a message, think of transmitting something when using the word communicable. In this word, you might see communicate, commune, and community. All of these words come from the Latin root communicare which means "to share." When something is communicable it is easily shared with a community of people.
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readily communicated“communicable ideas”synonyms:
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(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infectionsynonyms: catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittableinfectiouseasily spread
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The suffix -able means "able to be." All of the words on this list are learnable — so go to it!
Jessie learns that the 19th-century frontier village she lives in is actually a 20th-century tourist attraction — and she must venture out into the modern world to find life-saving medicine for her community.
Colson Whitehead's novel follows Cora, an enslaved woman, as she travels north in search of freedom. Infused with a hint of magical realism, this harrowing and groundbreaking book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.