transmissible

From Latin trānsmissus +‎ -ible.^[1]

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transmissible (not comparable)

1. Able to be transmitted.

   Synonym: transmittable

   1. (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.

      Hypernym: infectious

      Synonyms: communicable, spreadable, catching (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)

      Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable

      Hyponym: contagious

   2. (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
2. Able to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.
   • Quoted in 2024, Lynette J Chua, ‎Jack Jin Gary Lee, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits (page 117)

     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.

   • 2026 April 23, Duncan Leatherdale, "Rapist who infected men and boys with HIV jailed" (BBC News) [1]

     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".

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transmissible (plural transmissibles)

1. transmissible, transmittable

• maladie sexuellement transmissible

• “transmissible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012