Word.ws English Dictionary

subfebrile

subfebrile adjective: slightly raised above normal, but not febrile.

Adjective

subfebrile (not comparable)

  1. slightly raised above normal, but not febrile

Origin of subfebrile

From sub- + febrile.

Questions about subfebrile

What does subfebrile mean?
Subfebrile means slightly raised above normal, but not febrile.
What part of speech is subfebrile?
Subfebrile is an adjective.

Words near subfebrile in the dictionary

  1. subfastigiately
  2. subfault
  3. subfaults
  4. subfeature
  5. subfeatures
  6. subfebrile
  7. subfebrility
  8. subfecund
  9. subfecundities
  10. subfecundity
  11. subfeed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: subfebrile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “subfebrile.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/subfebrile. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.