After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. --Shak.
-- {Fit"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Fit"ful*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
The victorious trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. --Macaulay.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
fitfulness — index inconsistency, irregularity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
fitfulness — fitful ► ADJECTIVE ▪ active or occurring intermittently; not regular or steady. DERIVATIVES fitfully adverb fitfulness noun … English terms dictionary
fitfulness — noun see fitful … New Collegiate Dictionary
fitfulness — See fitfully. * * * … Universalium
fitfulness — noun The quality of being fitful … Wiktionary
fitfulness — n. lack of regularity, quality of being sporadic or erratic, quality of occurring intermittently … English contemporary dictionary
fitfulness — fit·ful·ness … English syllables
fitfulness — noun the quality of being spasmodic and irregular • Syn: ↑jerkiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑jerky (for: ↑jerkiness), ↑fitful • Hypernyms: ↑irregularity, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Irregularity of recurrence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irregularity of recurrence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irregularity irregularity uncertainty unpunctuality Sgm: N 1 fitfulness fitfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 capriciousness capriciousness ecrhythmus|… … English dictionary for students
jerkiness — noun the quality of being spasmodic and irregular • Syn: ↑fitfulness • Derivationally related forms: ↑jerky, ↑fitful (for: ↑fitfulness) • Hypernyms: ↑irregularity … Useful english dictionary
