contractable
- adjective
- /kənˈtræktəbl/
- Specialized
:
contagioso
- Health officials warned that the virus is contractable through close contact with infected individuals.
Examples
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The flu is a highly contractable illness that can spread quickly in crowded places.
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During the outbreak, it became clear that many people were contractable unless they followed proper hygiene practices.
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Similarly, there was no error in which contractions were prevented by misarranged letters, such as a contractable "er" sequence being metathesized, as in the following nonoccurring invented error: 17.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
108
3.1
Something that spreads from one person to another, like a disease or feeling
76
3.9
A disease that can spread from one person to another
9
4.2
Able to pass from one person to another and cause sickness
3
5.3
Able to pass from one person or animal to another by infection
2
3.9
Able to pass from one person or animal to another
1
7.4
Able to make people sick and spread disease
Easily caught and spread among people or animals
Easy to get, especially an illness that spreads between people
Able to spread from one person to another, like a cold
Able to pass from one person to another
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word contractable comes from the verb contract, which once meant to 'draw together', and its root tract means 'pull', as in tractor. So a contractable disease is one you can 'pull into' or 'take into' your body, in other words a disease you can 'catch'.