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Pronunciation: [fˈɪtfə͡l] (IPA)

Fitful is an adjective that is used to describe something that occurs irregularly or inconsistently. Some synonyms for fitful include sporadic, intermittent, episodic, unsteady, and fluctuating. These words describe something that is not regular or constant, rather they suggest an unpredictable and inconsistent quality. Sporadic refers to something that suddenly appears and occurs irregularly, while intermittent describes something that stops and starts repeatedly. Episodic suggests something that occurs occasionally in separate stages, while unsteady refers to something that is not stable or constant. Lastly, fluctuating suggests that something is constantly changing or experiencing ups and downs. All of these synonyms are useful for describing something that is fitful, inconsistent, or uncertain.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for fitful?

Fitful refers to an event or action that occurs sporadically, without any set pattern. It can be used to describe anything that lacks consistency or regularity. Antonyms for fitful are words like steady, constant, continuous. Steady refers to a constant, unvarying flow or motion. On the other hand, constant means something that remains unchanged or remains the same throughout, while continuous refers to something that is unbroken or uninterrupted, without any pause or gap. These antonyms are used when describing an action, event or even a person who is dependable and reliable, and they are all opposite to fitful, which is often used in a negative context.

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Usage examples for Fitful

If we take this literally, we must suppose that his claim to have been an author eighteen years before had its origin in his fitful vanity.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
He thought she went about languidly, and that she was fitful and dreamy, breaking from moods of unwonted abstraction in bursts of gayety as unnatural.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
I heard His Highness laugh gaily, and though he lit a cigarette his companion's face was turned from me so that I could not catch a glimpse of it in the fitful light.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux

Famous quotes with Fitful

  • Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
    H. G. Wells
  • Women, to be very attractive to all sorts of different people, must have great readiness of sympathy. Many have it naturally, and many work hard in acquiring a good imitation of it. In the first case it is against the nature of such persons to be monopolized for more than a very short time; in the second all their trouble would be thrown away if they allowed themselves to be monopolized. Once in their lives, indeed, they will be, and ought to be, and that monopoly lasts, or should last for ever; but instead of destroying in them that which was their great charm, it only deepens and widens it, and the sympathy which was before fitful, and, perhaps, wayward, flows on in a calm and healthy stream, blessing and cheering all who come within reach of its exhilarating and life-giving waters.
    Thomas Hughes
  • I've gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to come by, and the one in Boston has been stolen. The other two are self-contained paintings. The people in them are looking at each other -- the lady and her maid, the soldier and his sweetheart. Seeing them is peeking at them through a hole in a wall. And the wall is made of light -- that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beauitful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.
    Susanna Kaysen
  • 'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, "Why, you are the very image of Meph--"
    Louisa May Alcott
  • All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.
    Ray Bradbury

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