fitful Definition
fit·ful (fit′fəl)
fitful Related Forms
fit′·fully adverb
fit′·ful·ness noun
fitful Synonyms
fitful Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near fitful
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