1. able to be communicated to others: "the value of the product must be communicable to the potential consumers"
▪ (of a disease) able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another; contagious or infectious:"the fight against communicable disease"
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘communicating, having communication’): from Old French, from late Latin communicabilis, from the verb communicare ‘to share’ (see communicate).