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CONTRACTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contractable mean?
• CONTRACTABLE (adjective)
The adjective CONTRACTABLE has 1 sense:
1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Familiarity information: CONTRACTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Synonyms:
catching; communicable; contagious; contractable; transmissible; transmittable
Similar:
infectious (easily spread)
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