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transmissible

adj · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Able to be transmitted.

Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: medicine, sciences

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transmittable, communicable, spreadable, catching

Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable

Broader terms: infectious

Narrower terms: contagious

2

adj

Meaning 2

Able to be transmitted.

Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, radio-communications

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transmittable

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Able to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 2026 April 23, Duncan Leatherdale, "Rapist who infected men and boys with HIV jailed" (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg98qjrllqo Bindloss said Hall had been "fully and repeatedly" warned about the infection risk he posed, yet chose to keep himself "transmissible" while lying about his status to sexual partners in a "significant degree of premeditation".

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmittable

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • ancestral home
  • ancestral lore
  • hereditary monarchy
  • patrimonial estate
  • transmissible tradition

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an inherited disease
  • familial traits
  • genetically transmitted features

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.

Across languages

Translations

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: transmissible — able to be transmitted
  • Danish: overførbar — able to be transmitted
  • Dutch: overdraagbaar — able to be transmitted
  • Galician: transmisible — able to be transmitted
  • Galician: transmisíbel — able to be transmitted
  • Hungarian: átadható — able to be transmitted
  • Italian: trasmissibile — able to be transmitted
  • Manx: so-chur — able to be transmitted
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overførbar — able to be transmitted
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overførbar — able to be transmitted
  • Portuguese: transmissível — able to be transmitted
  • Romanian: transmisibil — able to be transmitted
  • Spanish: transmisible — able to be transmitted
  • Danish: overførbar — contagious
  • Dutch: overdraagbaar — contagious
  • Finnish: tarttuva — contagious
  • French: transmissible — contagious
  • Hungarian: fertőző — contagious
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overførbar — contagious
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overførbar — contagious
  • Polish: zaraźliwy — contagious
  • Romanian: transmisibil — contagious
  • Romanian: contagios — contagious