infectableadj.

Brit.

/ɪnˈfɛktəbl/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈfɛktəb(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: infect v., -able suffix.

Etymology: < infect v. + -able suffix. Compare French (rare) infectable (1831 or earlier, apparently earliest in the compound non-infectable ). Compare earlier infectible adj.

Susceptible to infection or a particular infection; capable of being infected (by or with a disease, organism, etc.). Also figurative. Cf. infectible adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > susceptible to disease

subject1548

susceptible1793

infectable1860

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable

openeOE

subjectc1384

pregnablec1475

opportunea1500

casuala1535

wide open?1544

obnoxious1572

assailable1589

liable1593

abnoxious1611

woundable1611

obnoxious1612

speeding1612

infectible1634

sufferable1651

attackable1656

vulnerable1678

prejudicial1682

threatenable1841

doable1849

infectable1860

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious > capable of being infected

smittable1487

infectable1860

1860 Proc. & Deb. Fourth National Quarantine & Sanitary Convent. 188 These several parts of the establishment shall be at such a distance and direction from each other, and all populous neighborhoods, infectious and infectable places, as to endanger the life of no one.

1864 Ann. & Trans. Brit. Homœopathic Soc. 4 400 Upon the fifth day of the small-pox..she was infectable, and actually infected, by another wholly different, specific, morbid poison.

1878 Galaxy Jan. 85/1 Wasn't I glad that I was ‘a girl of the period’, and not infectable with nonsense of that sort?

1940 E. Pound Let. 9 May (1950) 345 Obviously no man who had read either the classics or Confucius..would be infectable by the god-blithering tosh..dumped onto him.

1965 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Oct. 934/2 It was pointed out that even after repair a small and infectable defect of the ventricular septum might remain.

2009 A. F. Voevodin & P. A. Marx Simian Virol. xxiii. 434/2 Chimpanzees remain the only animal species infectable with HCV [= hepatitis C virus].

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	infectable
释义	infectableadj. Brit. /ɪnˈfɛktəbl/, U.S. /ᵻnˈfɛktəb(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: infect v., -able suffix. Etymology: < infect v. + -able suffix. Compare French (rare) infectable (1831 or earlier, apparently earliest in the compound non-infectable ). Compare earlier infectible adj. Susceptible to infection or a particular infection; capable of being infected (by or with a disease, organism, etc.). Also figurative. Cf. infectible adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > susceptible to disease subject1548 susceptible1793 infectable1860 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable openeOE subjectc1384 pregnablec1475 opportunea1500 casuala1535 wide open?1544 obnoxious1572 assailable1589 liable1593 abnoxious1611 woundable1611 obnoxious1612 speeding1612 infectible1634 sufferable1651 attackable1656 vulnerable1678 prejudicial1682 threatenable1841 doable1849 infectable1860 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious > capable of being infected smittable1487 infectable1860 1860 Proc. & Deb. Fourth National Quarantine & Sanitary Convent. 188 These several parts of the establishment shall be at such a distance and direction from each other, and all populous neighborhoods, infectious and infectable places, as to endanger the life of no one. 1864 Ann. & Trans. Brit. Homœopathic Soc. 4 400 Upon the fifth day of the small-pox..she was infectable, and actually infected, by another wholly different, specific, morbid poison. 1878 Galaxy Jan. 85/1 Wasn't I glad that I was ‘a girl of the period’, and not infectable with nonsense of that sort? 1940 E. Pound Let. 9 May (1950) 345 Obviously no man who had read either the classics or Confucius..would be infectable by the god-blithering tosh..dumped onto him. 1965 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Oct. 934/2 It was pointed out that even after repair a small and infectable defect of the ventricular septum might remain. 2009 A. F. Voevodin & P. A. Marx Simian Virol. xxiii. 434/2 Chimpanzees remain the only animal species infectable with HCV [= hepatitis C virus]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1860
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