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Febrile vs Afebrile - What's the difference?

febrile | afebrile |

As adjectives the difference between febrile and afebrile

is that febrile is feverish, or having a high temperature while afebrile is having no fever, without a fever.

febrile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feverish, or having a high temperature.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1983 , isbn=0-553-29949-2 , date= , author=(Isaac Asimov) , title=(The Robots of Dawn) , url= , page=116 , chapter=22 , passage=Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?). }}
  • Full of nervous energy.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.}}

    Synonyms

    * (feverish): flushed, hot * (full of energy): energetic, excited

    afebrile

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having no fever, without a fever.
  • Synonyms

    * apyretic

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