fitful

Speech parts

1. fitful - Adjective

2. fitful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spasmodic interrupted paroxysmal restless spotty inconstant wiggly squally changing broken variable varying random occasional uncertain
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Antonyms

even continued regular powerful constant continuous
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Related terms

in fits and starts

Phrases with the word

fitful rest

Examples

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. H. G. Wells

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives? Alan Lightman

The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped. Celia Thaxter

All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television. Ray Bradbury

I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. John Buchan

The first few days I felt trapped in a constant twilight of vertigo, like in the dream where you're suddenly falling... only I was constantly falling. In moments of fitful sleep I was aware of the dim possibility that I would wake up, truly wake up, and this would not have happened. Joe Biden

Close letter words and terms

fitchy Fite fitfluencer fitful rest fitfully fitfulness