An adjective that sounds a little like what it means, fitful means stopping and starting, on again off again, switching suddenly. I had a fitful night's sleep: I woke up several times throughout the night.
Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Adjective S.
intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
Adjective S.
occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"
a.
Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Fitful
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.--
The victorius trumpet peal Dies fitfully away.
Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
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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.
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