Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being contracted or acquired: as, contractable diseases.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective capable of being transmitted by infection; same as communicable, 1; -- of disease.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being contracted (in various senses).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Etymologies

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contract +‎ -able

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