fitful : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fitful	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fitful adj occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire" Synonym(s): fitful, spasmodic intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" Synonym(s): fitful, interrupted, off-and-on(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fitful \Fit"ful\, a. [From 7th {Fit}.] Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. --Shak. -- {Fit"fully}, adv. -- {Fit"fulness}, n. The victorious trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. --Macaulay.