Meanings
- Able to be transmitted.
- not comparablemedicineCapable of being transmitted from one person to another.
(but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
Synonyms: transmittable, communicable, spreadable, catching · Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable
- not comparablebroadcastingCapable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
Synonyms: transmittable
- not comparableAble to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.
2 more examples
Because I think from a public health perspective, knowing that you are transmissible and going around transmitting, because sometimes that's not your main intention. I don't want to go around to transmit. But I think knowing that you are transmissible and still engaging in possible acts that might transmit the virus is an irresponsible thing to do.
Quoted in 2024, Lynette J Chua, Jack Jin Gary Lee, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits (page 117)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".
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCapable of being transmitted from one person to another.
adjectiveCapable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
adjectiveoccurring among members of a family usually by heredity
adjectiveinherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan transmissible
- transmissibleable to be transmitted
Danish overførbar, overførbar
- overførbarcontagious
- overførbarable to be transmitted
Dutch overdraagbaar, overdraagbaar
- overdraagbaarcontagious
- overdraagbaarable to be transmitted
Finnish tarttuva
- tarttuvacontagious
French transmissible
- transmissiblecontagious
Hungarian fertőző, átadható
- fertőzőcontagious
- átadhatóable to be transmitted
Italian trasmissibile
- trasmissibileable to be transmitted
Norwegian Bokmål overførbar, overførbar
- overførbarcontagious
- overførbarable to be transmitted
Polish zaraźliwy
- zaraźliwycontagious
Portuguese transmissível
- transmissívelable to be transmitted
Romanian transmisibil, contagios
- transmisibilcontagious
- contagioscontagious
- transmisibilable to be transmitted
Spanish transmisible
- transmisibleable to be transmitted
Cite this entry
transmissible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transmissible
“transmissible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transmissible. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transmissible,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transmissible.
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