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communicable
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communicable as in:  a communicable disease

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    Simpson's on a field trip in Borneo for the summer, and because there's a question of communicable disease with this lizard, she asked our lab to take a look at it.  (source)
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    Being unpopular was a communicable disease.  (source)
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    "Rarely do chronic conditions such as obesity," the CDC scientists observed, "spread with the speed and dispersion characteristic of a communicable disease epidemic."  (source)
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    It was not his incommunicable soul or his love for others or his social duty or any of the fraudulent sounds by which he had maintained his self-esteem: it was the lust to destroy whatever was living, for the sake of whatever was not.†  (source)
    incommunicable = not capable of being transmitted by infection
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommunicable means not and reverses the meaning of communicable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But good can be as communicable as evil, and that is where kindness and compassion come into play.  (source)
    communicable = contagious
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    This doctrine of the incommunicability of the Truth which is beyond names and forms is basic to the great Oriental, as well as to the Platonic, traditions.†  (source)
    incommunicability = not capable of being transmitted by infection
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommunicability means not and reverses the meaning of communicability. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    My wife, fresh from the beauty parlor, was unmarked by her three days of distress, and in the eyes of many seemed to outshine Julia, whose sadness had gone and been replaced by an incommunicable content and tranquility; incommunicable save to me; she and I, separated by the crowd, sat alone together close enwrapped, as we had lain in each other's arms the night before.†  (source)
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    When an epidemic of mumps broke out in the school, Katie went into action against communicable diseases.  (source)
    communicable = contagious
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    Conway glanced at him in appreciation, and at Mallinson with some hint of reproof; but then abruptly he had the feeling that they were all acting on a vast stage, of whose background only he himself was conscious; and such knowledge, so incommunicable, made him suddenly want to be alone.†  (source)
    incommunicable = not capable of being transmitted by infection
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    A blessing beyond appreciation would be conferred upon mankind, if the tainted, in whose weakness or wickedness these virulent disorders are bred, could be instantly seized and placed in close confinement (not to say summarily smothered) before the poison is communicable.  (source)
    communicable = contagious and spread
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    And scarcely had she paused when again that terrible incommunicable pain swept through her, the pain that could not speak once to Uncle Pio and tell him of her love and just once offer her courage to Jaime in his sufferings.†  (source)
    incommunicable = not capable of being transmitted by infection
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    But I swear to you that I had a perfectly communicable little vision of truth (lamb-chop division) this afternoon the very instant that child told me her boy friends' names were Bobby and Dorothy.†  (source)
    communicable = contagious
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    In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.†  (source)
    incommunicable = not capable of being transmitted by infection
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rare meaning

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    You take the trouble to construct a civilization … to … to build a society, based on the principles of … of principle …. you endeavor to make communicable sense out of natural order, morality out of the unnatural disorder of man's mind …. you make government and art, and …  (source)
    communicable = in a manner that can be communicated and passed down
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    None of the English people knew of this, nor did the chauffeur; it was a racial secret communicable more by blood than speech.  (source)
    communicable = communicated or spread
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    He had really seen no communicable ground for suspecting any ususual feeling between Stephen and Maggie; his own reason told him so, and he wanted to go home at once that he might reflect coolly on these false images, till he had convinced himself of their nullity.  (source)
    communicable = capable of being communicated
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    It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.  (source)
    incommunicable = not capable of being communicated or spread
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommunicable means not and reverses the meaning of communicable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.  (source)
    uncommunicable = not capable of being communicated
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncommunicable means not and reverses the meaning of communicable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    She moved among her flowers with consummate natural fluidity, enjoying the incommunicable pleasures of growing things with the patience and concentration of a watchmaker.  (source)
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    We could almost be called incommunicable, except we remained lucid; we got over what we felt, sensed and understood.  (source)
    incommunicable = unable to communicate
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