communicate

Verb

• transmit information
  • "Please communicate this message to all employees"
• transmit thoughts or feelings
  • "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
• transfer to another
  • "communicate a disease"
• join or connect
  • "The rooms communicated"
• be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
  • "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"
  • "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
• administer Communion; in church
• receive Communion, in the Catholic church
• To impart.
• To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
• To impart.
• To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
• To impart.
• To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
• To share
• To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
• To share
• To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
• To share
• To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
• To share
• To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
• To share
• To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].

Adj

• Communicated, (made) commune, joined.

Examples

• I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
• It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
• Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
• The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
• The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
• to communicate motion by means of a crank
• We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.

Synonyms

commune, convey, intercommunicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across, transmit, articulate, communicate

Antonyms

excommunicate

Related Words

communication, communion, excommunicate, incommunicado