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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fitful \Fit"ful\, a. [From 7th {Fit}.]
     Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
     Fithel

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fitful
       adj 1: occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of
              energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire" [syn: {spasmodic}]
       2: intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or
          interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: {interrupted},
           {off-and-on(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  189 Moby Thesaurus words for "fitful":
     adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, broken,
     broken off, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable,
     changeful, chopped-off, choppy, convulsive, correctly, decently,
     decorously, decousu, desultory, deviable, deviative,
     disarticulated, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous,
     discrete, disjunct, disjunctive, disordered, dispersed,
     disproportionate, dizzy, eccentric, eclamptic, episodic, erratic,
     fast and loose, fickle, fidgety, fitly, fittingly, flickering,
     flighty, flitting, fluctuating, formless, freakish, frivolous,
     giddy, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky,
     heteroclite, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive,
     inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
     indiscriminate, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted,
     irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerking, jerky,
     jiggety, jumpy, justly, lurching, mazy, meaningless, mercurial,
     misshapen, moody, nicely, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential,
     nonserial, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, occasional,
     on-again-off-again, orderless, orgasmic, parenthetic, patchy,
     periodic, planless, promiscuous, properly, rambling, random,
     recurrent, restless, rightly, rough, roving, saltatory,
     scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, shapeless, shifting, shifty,
     shuffling, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic,
     spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly,
     suspended, systemless, twitchety, twitching, twitchy,
     unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unconnected,
     uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal,
     uneven, unfixed, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical,
     unordered, unorganized, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable,
     unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unstable,
     unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsuccessive,
     unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant,
     vague, variable, varying, veering, vellicative, vicissitudinary,
     vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery,
     wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly
  
  

















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