transmissible

Adjective

transmissible (not comparable)

1. Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
   • (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)

   Synonyms:

   transmittable, communicable, spreadable, catching

   Antonyms:

   nontransmissible, noncommunicable

2. Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.

   Synonyms:

   transmittable

3. Able to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.
   • 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...Quoted in 2024, Lynette J Chua, Jack Jin Gary Lee, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits (page 117)
   • 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".2026 April 23, Duncan Leatherdale, "Rapist who infected men and boys with HIV jailed" (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg98qjrllqo