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What is "fitful" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fitful mean in English? Meaning of fitful definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fitful" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fitful": occurring in spells and often abruptly

Adjective

  • Meaning: occurring in spells and often abruptly
  • Example: fitful bursts of energy spasmodic rifle fire
  • Synonyms: fitful spasmodic
  • Similar: sporadic

    • Meaning of "fitful": intermittently stopping and starting

    Adjective

  • Meaning: intermittently stopping and starting
  • Example: fitful (or interrupted) sleep off-and-on static
  • Synonyms: fitful interrupted off-and-on
  • Similar: broken
  • Adjective: Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits. His breathing was fitful. 1605, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act III [...] Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 123 The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door [...] 2012, The Economist, The economy: Don’t say “green shoots” So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.1605, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act III [...] Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 123 The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door [...]2012, The Economist, The economy: Don’t say “green shoots” So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.

    • Synonyms:

    periodic, spotty, desultory, intermittent, broken, capricious, catchy, changeable, disturbed, erratic, flickering, haphazard, hit-or-miss, impulsive, inconstant, interrupted, random, recurrent, restive, restless, spasmodic, unstable, variable, bits and pieces, fluctuating, herky-jerky, on-again-off-again, shifting, spastic,

    Antonyms:

    continual, continuous, unvarying, constant, regular, even, undisturbed,

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