| 单词 | fitful |
| 释义 | fitful (once / 1409 pages) adj An adjective that sounds a little like what it means, fitful means stopping and starting, on-again off-again, switching suddenly. I had a fitful night's sleep: I woke up several times throughout the night. A fit is a disturbance that happens without warning, like a tantrum, tremor, or spasm. If something is fitful, it's "full of fits." A night at the opera is a night of fitful pleasures: the arias are cool, but the rest of the show is boring. I've made only fitful progress trying to lose weight, because I lose only a few pounds at a time, and they almost always come right back: my progress is fitful because it comes in "fits and starts." WORD FAMILYfitful: fitfully, fitfulness+/fit: fitful, fitly, fitness, fits, fitted, fitter, fittest, fitting, misfit, refit, unfit/fitness: fitnesses/fitter: fitters/fitting: fittingly, fittingness, fittings, ill-fitting/misfit: misfits, misfitted, misfitting/refit: refits, refitted, refitting/unfit: unfitly, unfitness, unfits, unfitted, unfitting/unfitness: unfitnesses/unfitting: unfittingly USAGE EXAMPLESIn a fitful and contentious year, it is perhaps no surprise that this year there were more bad grades than good. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) I sat near her in the fitful February sun and watched her closely. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) Finn’s music, a compendium of 1970s Broadway, relates the show’s harried psychology with a fitful ebullience that’s darkened with observant ironies. Los Angeles Times(Nov 17, 2016) 1adj occurring in spells and often abruptly fitful bursts of energy Syn spasmodic sporadic recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances 2adj intermittently stopping and starting fitful (or interrupted) sleep Syn interrupted, off-and-on broken not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly |
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