Definitions for fitful

fitful fit·ful

Spelling: [fit-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈfɪt fəl/

Fitful is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in fitful (ffiltu).

Definitions for fitful

adjective

  1. coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly.

Origin of fitful

First recorded in 1595-1605; fit2 + -ful

Examples for fitful

The stress, compounded by fitful rest and sleepless nights, ages you quickly.

Twice more in all; but, the last spell of work was feeble and fitful.

Hossein breathed heavily as he fell in and out of a fitful sleep.

Though he lay down in the entrance and slept, his sleep was fitful.

With these gloomy thoughts he fell at last into fitful slumber.

Occasionally it was fitful, and when summoned by irony remained at a distance.

He made some fitful attempts to calm down a bit, filling modest, collage-like monochromatic surfaces with angular shapes.

There have been fitful mutterings about Catalonia, the region of Spain where Barcelona is, seceding from Spain.

So squandering away decades of a sterling credit rating over a “contentious and fitful process” will seem petty.

So we waited, with only a decent pretence of interest in the fitful talk.

Word Value for fitful
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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