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Definition of Fitful
1. Adjective. Occurring in spells and often abruptly. "Spasmodic rifle fire"
2. Adjective. Intermittently stopping and starting. "Off-and-on static"
Definition of Fitful
1. a. Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Definition of Fitful
1. Adjective. Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fitful
1. recurring irregularly [adj] : FITFULLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fitful
Literary usage of Fitful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"FRAGMENT: fitful RAIN. THE fitful alternations of the rain, When the chill wind,
languid as with pain Of its own heavy moisture, here and there Drives ..."
2. Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1898)
"... fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow — but
first I note, The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow — but
first I note, The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim ..."
4. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Tlie 4th of March, 1S0.5, as commonly happens in the latitude of Washington, was
one of those fitful March days when ..."
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