contractable

1. 1.

   (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

   Synonymscatchingcommunicablecontagioustransmissibletransmittable

   Similarinfectious

Questions about contractable

What does contractable mean?

contractable means "(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection".

How many syllables are in contractable?

contractable has 4 syllables: con-trac-ta-ble. The stress falls on "trac".

What is another word for contractable?

Close synonyms include catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contractable a common word?

contractable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.