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Meanings of fitful in English

Intermittently stopping and starting.

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        Occurring in spells and often abruptly.

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              Usage of fitful in English
              1
              The wind had abated its violence; coming now in fitful, virulent puffs.
              Heart of the West
              2
              The wind soughed through the pines and cedars in a fitful manner.
              Frank Merriwell's Cruise
              3
              The girl moaned in her fitful sleep and Miss Smith soothed her.
              The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
              4
              Some fitful sleep came to her at last in the morning hours.
              Marriage à la mode
              5
              They had a few fitful naps throughout the remainder of the night.
              Under the Ocean to the South Pole; Or, the Strange Cruise of the...
              6
              The fitful firelight only served to emphasize the intensity of surrounding darkness.
              The Heart of Unaga
              7
              In the fitful light Suth glimpsed fallen bodies, broken rock and equipment.
              Stonewielder
              8
              The sail, scarcely filled by the fitful breeze, flapped against the mast.
              The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
              9
              The light was fitful, and dark shadows flickered on the dosshouse walls.
              Creatures That Once Were Men
              10
              A green, fitful illumination was cast by lights set in the walls.
              The darkest road
              11
              From the ballroom, faint and fitful, came the music of a waltz.
              Phantom Fortune, a Novel
              12
              Nature looked disturbed and fitful, and the ship responded to her mood.
              The Wings of the Morning
              13
              And, in a fitful or superficial sense, he must have been so.
              Life and Letters of Robert Browning
              14
              The Bertolucci is unbelievably squalid and Starting Over is fitful at best.
              The Irish Times
              15
              Here there is a fitful lamp which makes one prefer the darkness.
              The New Book of Martyrs
              16
              Her night had been fitful, plagued by wraithlike dreams not fully formed.
              Dark pursuit
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              United Kingdom
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              United States of America
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