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Fitful

Fitful Meaning & Definition
Fitful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fitful?

[adj] intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
[adj] occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fitful: broken | interrupted | off-and-on(a) | spasmodic | sporadic

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fitful: adrift | afloat | aimless | alternating | amorphous | broken | broken off | capricious | careening | casual | catchy | changeable | changeful | chopped-off | choppy | convulsive | correctly | decently | decorously | decousu | desultory | deviable | deviative | disarticulated | disconnected | discontinued | discontinuous | discrete | disjunct | disjunctive | disordered | dispersed | disproportionate | dizzy | eccentric | eclamptic | episodic | erratic | fast and loose | fickle | fidgety | fitly | fittingly | flickering | flighty | flitting | fluctuating | formless | freakish | frivolous | giddy | gratuitous | guttering | halting | haphazard | herky-jerky | heteroclite | hit-or-miss | immethodical | impetuous | impulsive | inchoate | incoherent | inconsistent | inconstant | indecisive | indiscriminate | infirm | intermittent | intermitting | interrupted | irregular | irresolute | irresponsible | jagged | jerking | jerky | jiggety | jumpy | justly | lurching | mazy | meaningless | mercurial | misshapen | moody | nicely | noncontinuous | nonlinear | nonsequential | nonserial | nonsymmetrical | nonsystematic | nonuniform | occasional | on-again-off-again | orderless | orgasmic | parenthetic | patchy | periodic | planless | promiscuous | properly | rambling | random | recurrent | restless | rightly | rough | roving | saltatory | scatterbrained | scrappy | senseless | shapeless | shifting | shifty | shuffling | snatchy | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | spastic | spineless | sporadic | spotty | staggering | straggling | straggly | suspended | systemless | twitchety | twitching | twitchy | unaccountable | unarranged | uncertain | unclassified | unconnected | uncontrolled | undependable | undirected | undisciplined | unequal | uneven | unfixed | ungraded | unjoined | unmethodical | unmetrical | unordered | unorganized | unpredictable | unregular | unreliable | unrestrained | unrhythmical | unsettled | unsorted | unstable | unstable as water | unstaid | unsteadfast | unsteady | unsuccessive | unsymmetrical | unsystematic | ununiform | vacillating | vagrant | vague | variable | varying | veering | vellicative | vicissitudinary | vicissitudinous | volatile | wandering | wanton | wavering | wavery | wavy | wayward | whimsical | wishy-washy | wobbling | wobbly

See Also |

Fitful In Webster's Dictionary

\Fit"ful\, a. [From 7th {Fit}.] Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. --Shak. -- {Fit"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Fit"ful*ness}, n. The victorious trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. --Macaulay.

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