'Fitful' definitions:
Definition of 'fitful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire" [syn: fitful, spasmodic]
adjective
Intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: fitful, interrupted, off-and-on(a)]
Definition of 'Fitful'
From: GCIDE
- Fitful \Fit"ful\, a. [From 7th Fit.] Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable. [1913 Webster]
- After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. --Shak. -- {Fit"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Fit"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- The victorious trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. --Macaulay. Fithel
Synonyms of 'fitful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Fitful'
- By fits,
- Fit,
- Fitfully,
- Fitfulness,
- Fitly,
- Fitness,
- Fitted,
- Fitting,
- Fittingly,
- To fit out,
- To fit up,
- fit in,
- fit out,
- fits,
- fitted out,
- have a fit,
- By fits and starts,
- Fainting fit,
- Fit rod,
- Forcing fit,
- Pipe fitting,
- Steam fitting,
- fit the bill,
- fit to be tied,
- fits and starts,
- fitted out outfitted,
- fitted sheet,
- fitted to the meridian of,
- gas fitting,
- physical fitness,
- see fit,
- throw a fit,
- tight fitting,
- tightly fitting,
- Reducing pipe fitting,
- close-fitting,
- ill-fitting,
- loose-fitting,
- tight-fitting