fitful

fitful
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • fitful — fitful, spasmodic, convulsive are comparable when they mean lacking steadiness or regularity in course, movement, or succession (as of acts or efforts). Fitful stresses variability and intermittency; it implies an irregular succession… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fitful — index broken (interrupted), disjunctive (tending to disjoin), disorderly, haphazard, inconsistent, intermittent, sporadic …   Law dictionary

  • fitful — used once by Shakespeare ( Macbeth, 1605) in sense of characterized by fits, then revived by Scott (1810) with a sense of shifting, changing. From FIT (Cf. fit) (n.2) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Fitfully; fitfulness …   Etymology dictionary

  • fitful — [adj] irregular, sporadic bits and pieces*, broken, capricious, catchy*, changeable, desultory, disturbed, erratic, flickering, fluctuating, haphazard, herky jerky*, hit or miss*, impulsive, inconstant, intermittent, interrupted, onagain off… …   New thesaurus

  • fitful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ active or occurring intermittently; not regular or steady. DERIVATIVES fitfully adverb fitfulness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • fitful — [fit′fəl] adj. [ FIT2 + FUL] characterized by irregular or intermittent activity, impulses, etc.; spasmodic; restless fitfully adv. fitfulness n …   English World dictionary

  • fitful — adjective Date: 1592 1. obsolete characterized by fits or paroxysms 2. having an erratic or intermittent character ; irregular • fitfully adverb • fitfulness noun Synonyms: fitful, spasmodic …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • fitful — [[t]fɪ̱tfʊl[/t]] ADJ Something that is fitful happens for irregular periods of time or occurs at irregular times, rather than being continuous. Colin drifted off into a fitful sleep... The government is making slow and fitful progress in these… …   English dictionary

  • fitful — fit|ful [ˈfıtfəl] adj not regular, and starting and stopping often ▪ John awoke from a fitful sleep . ▪ The peace talks only seem to be making fitful progress. >fitfully adv ▪ She slept fitfully …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fitful — adjective Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits. His breathing was fitful …   Wiktionary

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