communicable
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcommunicablecom‧mu‧ni‧ca‧ble /kəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl/ AWL adjective formal 1 SPREADa communicable disease can be passed on to other people SYN infectious2 EXPRESSable to be communicatedExamples from the Corpuscommunicable• AIDS is not communicable by food or drink.• The greatest achievements were obtained in the fight against communicable disease.• In fact leprosy is the least infectious of all the communicable diseases.• Her ideas were not easily communicable to others.• Feeling something very strongly in our mind often becomes communicable to the horse.• To know something is to participate in a communicable truth.