nontransmissible

1. 1.

   not acquirable by inheritance

   Synonymsnonhereditary

   Similarnoninheritable
2. 2.

   (of disease) not capable of being passed on

   Synonymsnoncommunicablenoncontagious

   Similarnoninfectious

Questions about nontransmissible

What does nontransmissible mean?

nontransmissible means "not acquirable by inheritance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nontransmissible?

nontransmissible has 5 syllables: non-tran-smis-si-ble. The stress falls on "smis".

What is another word for nontransmissible?

Close synonyms include nonhereditary, noncommunicable, noncontagious. 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 nontransmissible a common word?

nontransmissible 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.