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Definition of fitfully in English: fitfullyadverb ˈfɪtfʊliˈfɪtf(ə)liˈfɪtfəli Not regularly or continuously; intermittently. Example sentencesExamples - But they remain startlingly original, if only fitfully funny.
- I had thought earlier that I might be able to get to sleep, but after 2 hours of trying fitfully, I am giving in.
- The engine didn't so much pull as tug fitfully at the wheels.
- He is blessed as an autobiographer with an outstandingly strange and only fitfully happy childhood.
- I had also been sleeping fitfully and dreaming about the race all night.
Synonyms intermittently, sporadically, spasmodically, irregularly, patchily, discontinuously, erratically, in/by fits and starts, in snatches variably, unevenly, disconnectedly, unsteadily, on and off, off and on
Definition of fitfully in US English: fitfullyadverbˈfɪtfəliˈfitfəlē Not regularly or continuously; intermittently. Example sentencesExamples - I had also been sleeping fitfully and dreaming about the race all night.
- The engine didn't so much pull as tug fitfully at the wheels.
- But they remain startlingly original, if only fitfully funny.
- I had thought earlier that I might be able to get to sleep, but after 2 hours of trying fitfully, I am giving in.
- He is blessed as an autobiographer with an outstandingly strange and only fitfully happy childhood.
Synonyms intermittently, sporadically, spasmodically, irregularly, patchily, discontinuously, erratically, by fits and starts, in fits and starts, in snatches
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