Usually means: Intermittently active or occurring irregularly.
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  1. fitfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. fitfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fitfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fitfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fitfully, fitfully: Wordnik
  6. fitfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fitfully: Wiktionary
  8. fitfully: Dictionary.com
  9. fitfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. fitfully: Rhymezone
  11. fitfully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fitfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. fitfully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. fitfully: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. fitfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily.

Similar:
unsteadily, erratically, unsteadfastly, restlessly, unrhythmically, wamblingly, unrestfully, irregularly, stumblingly, unstably, more...

Opposite:
steadily, consistently, continuously, smoothly

Types:
on and off, intermittently, sporadically, stop-start, more...

Phrases:
sleep fitfully, more...



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Similar:
unsteadily, erratically, unsteadfastly, restlessly, unrhythmically, wamblingly, unrestfully, irregularly, stumblingly, unstably, more...

Opposite:
steadily, consistently, continuously, smoothly

Types:
on and off, intermittently, sporadically, stop-start, more...

Phrases:
sleep fitfully, more...



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