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1 fitful
Occurring in spells and often abruptly:
— Fitful bursts of energy.
synoniem: spasmodic.
Roget 70:
discontinuous,
unsuccessive†,
broken,
interrupted,
dicousu [Fr.];
disconnected,
unconnected;
discrete,
disjunctive;
fitful
etc.
(irregular)
139;
spasmodic,
desultory;
intermitting,
occasional
etc.
v.,
intermittent;
alternate;
recurrent
etc.
(periodic)
138.
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Roget 608:
capricious;
erratic,
eccentric,
fitful,
hysterical;
full of whims
etc.
n.;
maggoty;
inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky [U.S.],
particular,
humorsome†,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward;
contrary;
captious;
arbitrary;
unconformable
etc.
83;
penny wise and pound foolish;
fickle
etc.
(irresolute)
605;
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy,
volatile.
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Roget 139:
irregular,
uncertain,
unpunctual,
capricious,
desultory,
fitful,
flickering;
rambling,
rhapsodical;
spasmodic;
immethodical†,
unmethodical,
variable.
Roget 149:
changeable,
changeful;
changing
etc.
140;
mutable,
variable,
checkered,
ever changing;
protean,
proteiform†;
versatile.
unstaid†,
inconstant;
unsteady,
unstable,
unfixed,
unsettled;
fluctuating
etc.
v.;
restless;
agitated
etc.
315;
erratic,
fickle;
irresolute
etc.
605;
capricious
etc.
608;
touch and go;
inconsonant,
fitful,
spasmodic;
vibratory;
vagrant,
wayward;
desultory;
afloat;
alternating;
alterable,
plastic,
mobile;
transient
etc.
111;
wavering.
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2 fitful
Intermittently stopping and starting:
— Fitful (or interrupted) sleep.
synoniemen: interrupted, off-and-on.
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