fitfulness (noun)

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• fitfulness — fitful ► ADJECTIVE ▪ active or occurring intermittently; not regular or steady. DERIVATIVES fitfully adverb fitfulness noun …   English terms dictionary

• fitfulness — noun see fitful …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fitfulness — noun The quality of being fitful …   Wiktionary

• fitfulness — noun the quality of being spasmodic and irregular • Syn: ↑jerkiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑jerky (for: ↑jerkiness), ↑fitful • Hypernyms: ↑irregularity, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• fitful — adjective Date: 1592 1. obsolete characterized by fits or paroxysms 2. having an erratic or intermittent character ; irregular • fitfully adverb • fitfulness noun Synonyms: fitful, spasmodic …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fitful — adjective active or occurring intermittently; not regular or steady. Derivatives fitfully adverb fitfulness noun …   English new terms dictionary

• fitful — /ˈfɪtfəl / (say fitfuhl) adjective coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; irregularly intermittent: *hurricane lamps whose fitful orange gleamings made the atmosphere dimly satanic –sumner locke elliott, 1981. {fit2 + ful}… …  

• fitful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ active or occurring intermittently; not regular or steady. DERIVATIVES fitfully adverb fitfulness noun …   English terms dictionary

• fitfully — fitful ► ADJECTIVE ▪ active or occurring intermittently; not regular or steady. DERIVATIVES fitfully adverb fitfulness noun …   English terms dictionary

• jerkiness — noun the quality of being spasmodic and irregular • Syn: ↑fitfulness • Derivationally related forms: ↑jerky, ↑fitful (for: ↑fitfulness) • Hypernyms: ↑irregularity …   Useful english dictionary

• irregularity — noun 1) the irregularity of the coastline Syn: asymmetry, nonuniformity, unevenness, crookedness, lopsidedness; jaggedness, raggedness, indentation 2) the irregularity of the surface Syn: roughness, bumpiness, uneve …   Thesaurus of popular words