as in infectious
capable of being passed by physical contact from one person to another
the virus chiefly affects dogs but is transmissible to humans and other animals
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Recent Examples of transmissible
Health officials say the virus is rare and is not considered to be easily transmissible.
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
The Dutch couple spent months traveling around South America in areas known to carry the Andes strain of the virus, which is the only strain transmissible from human to human.
—Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 11 May 2026
Namely, that this virus is far less transmissible.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
Hantavirus, the name for viruses derived from rodents that can infect humans, aren’t typically transmissible from person to person.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 9 May 2026
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
The Dutch couple spent months traveling around South America in areas known to carry the Andes strain of the virus, which is the only strain transmissible from human to human.
—Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 11 May 2026
Namely, that this virus is far less transmissible.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
Hantavirus, the name for viruses derived from rodents that can infect humans, aren’t typically transmissible from person to person.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 9 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmissible
Adjective
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Travolta’s infectious enthusiasm carried over into the movie itself, a semi-autobiographical trifle about his childhood love of air travel.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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His humor, and especially his laugh, was infectious.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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His provisional cause of death was given as multi-organ failure due to infective endocarditis, a rare infection of the inner lining or valves of the heart.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 July 2024
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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.—
Suzanne Van Atten,
AJC.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, diseases may be communicable (contagious) or noncommunicable; of the latter, the four major types identified by the World Health Organization are cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes mellitus.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Transmissible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmissible. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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