subfluent

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

subfluent (not comparable)

1. Flowing beneath.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     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.

Etymology 2

sub- +‎ fluent

Adjective

subfluent (comparative more subfluent, superlative most subfluent)

1. Below the level of fluency in a language.
   • 2012, William J. Weiner, Christopher G. Goetz, Robert K. Shin, Neurology for the Non-Neurologist, page 540:

     The two basic types of aphasia are subfluent and fluent.