fitful
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Is fitful a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Characterized by fits (convulsions or seizures).Examples: "Duncane is in his Graue: After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well, Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon, Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing, Can touch him further."obsolete
2. (by extension) Characterized by sudden bursts of activity with periods of inactivity in between; intermittent, irregular, unsteady.Examples: "His breathing was fitful."; "Troubled by her unfinished work, she fell into a fitful sleep."; "Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring, And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till envious ivy did around thee cling, Muffling with verdant ringlet every string,— […]"Synonyms: capricious, changeable, changing, erratic, shifting, spasmodic, broken, fitfulAntonyms: unfitful, broken, discontinuous, discrete, ending, intermittent, interrupted, stoppedbroadly
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