subfluent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Below the level of fluency in a language.
Example Sentences
- "It was through the crown of this construction [a bridge] that one day Watt, treading more heavily than was his wont, or picking his steps with less than his usual care, drove his foot, and part of his leg. And he would certainly have fallen, and perhaps been carried away by the subfluent flood, had I not been at hand to bear him up."
- "The two basic types of aphasia are subfluent and fluent."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more subfluent (comparative)
most subfluent (superlative)