'Fitfully' definitions:
Definition of 'fitfully'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In a fitful manner; "he slept fitfully"
Definition of 'Fitfully'
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 'fitfully'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- at haphazard,
- at intervals,
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by chance,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by skips,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- carelessly,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- flutteringly,
- haltingly,
- haphazardly,
- here and there,
- hit or miss,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- indiscriminately,
- infrequently,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- occasionally,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- per saltum,
- promiscuously,
- quakingly,
- quaveringly,
- quiveringly,
- randomly,
- roughly,
- saltatorily,
- shakily,
- shudderingly,
- skippingly,
- sloppily,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- tremblingly,
- tremulously,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- waveringly,
- whimsically,
- willy-nilly,
- wobblingly
Words containing 'Fitfully'
- By fits,
- Fit,
- Fitful,
- 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