(written) happening only for short periods; not continuous or regular:
a fitful night's sleep * a fitful burst of energy
fitfully adverb:
to sleep fitfully
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fitful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fitful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fitful is tagged as adjective.
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