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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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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.
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James Shapiro,
The Atlantic,
1 Dec. 2025
The findings are a reminder that animals carry diseases that are transmittable to humans.
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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.
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Scott Laird,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 Mar. 2024
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
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Lynn's infectious personality and ongoing quest for selfies made her someone that everyone wanted to know, and her sharp wit kept readers coming back for more.
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The traveler was infectious while passing through Los Angeles County, potentially exposing others at LAX and the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel.
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Hadron intends to market Halo as a transportable source of carbon-free electricity for sites that lack reliable grid access.
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She's got to be at mid-size, but not huge; portable, transportable, that kind of thing.
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Nonetheless, Khatima recorded a series of facts which indicated that the Black Death actually was communicable.
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Infected by the communicable Ebola virus while treating patients in Liberia, Brantly became the first person in the U.S. to have the disease and one of the first to survive it, along with his colleague and aid worker Nancy Writebol, who arrived three days later.
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Employees frequently possess transferable skills, adaptive capabilities, and untapped potential hidden beneath job titles, credentials, and organizational assumptions.
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Use transferable credit card points or airline miles for flights, and save your cash to book a better hotel or an elevated experience, Swinderman says.
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Transmission occurs human-to-human following close and prolonged contact during the early phase of the illness, when the virus is more transmissible, according to WHO.
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But Heidrich says the researchers observed that some of the transmissible microbes were associated with poor health.
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“Transmittable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmittable. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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