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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]:

  fitfully
       adv : in a fitful manner; "he slept fitfully"

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

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "fitfully":
     at haphazard, at intervals, at irregular intervals, at random,
     brokenly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by skips,
     by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, desultorily, disconnectedly,
     discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, flutteringly,
     haltingly, haphazardly, here and there, hit or miss, in snatches,
     in spots, inconstantly, indiscriminately, infrequently,
     intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly,
     occasionally, off and on, patchily, per saltum, promiscuously,
     quakingly, quaveringly, quiveringly, randomly, roughly,
     saltatorily, shakily, shudderingly, skippingly, sloppily,
     spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, tremblingly, tremulously,
     uncertainly, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably,
     unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, variably, waveringly,
     whimsically, willy-nilly, wobblingly
  
  

















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