Modifies a noun

• sleep: Half an hour sitting under a cold shower was followed by a few hours fitful sleep in the sweltering heat.

• night: Nelson, after a fitful night, was up and dressed.

• light: Some dim thing -- a ladder was being lowered through the opening, and a hand appeared holding a fitful yellow light.

• gleam: However, for us at first, the lighthouse shone with a somewhat fitful gleam.

• slumber: Brad decided not to wake Travers and Kerrod from their fitful slumber.

• gust: The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The sunshine was very fitful otherwise I'd have taken rather more pictures.

• rather: Instead a rather fitful performance fell away to become one of our least convincing of the season.

• somewhat: However, for us at first, the lighthouse shone with a somewhat fitful gleam.

• so: This is why, while other countries have made giant strides forward, our progress in the past 12 years has been so fitful.