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fitfully

fitfully adverb: in a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily.

Adverb

fitfully (comparative more fitfully, superlative most fitfully)

  1. In a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily.
    • He slept fitfully, plagued by bad dreams and a persistent cough.
    • The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 123, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

fitfully meaning in Bengali

fitfully in Bengali

অস্থিরভাবে, অনিয়মিত, অসংলগ্নভাবে

Examples of fitfully in a sentence

  • The train for Marmion left Boston at four o'clock in the afternoon, and rambled fitfully toward the southern cape, while the shadows grew long in the stony pastures […]1885–1886, Henry James, chapter XXXV, in The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
  • Now and again fitfully slept, but the pain of the cold always aroused me.1904, Jack London, chapter 36, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

Synonyms of fitfully

Forms of fitfully

comparativemore fitfully
superlativemost fitfully

Origin of fitfully

From fitful + -ly.

Questions about fitfully

What does fitfully mean?
Fitfully means in a fitful manner; irregularly or unsteadily.
What is fitfully in Bengali?
Fitfully in Bengali is অস্থিরভাবে, অনিয়মিত, অসংলগ্নভাবে. See Fitfully meaning in Bengali.
How do you use fitfully in a sentence?
The train for Marmion left Boston at four o'clock in the afternoon, and rambled fitfully toward the southern cape, while the shadows grew long in the stony pastures […]
What part of speech is fitfully?
Fitfully is an adverb.

Words near fitfully in the dictionary

  1. Fites
  2. fitfluencer
  3. fitfluencers
  4. FITFO
  5. fitful
  6. fitfully
  7. fitfulness
  8. fitfulnesses
  9. Fithian
  10. Fithians
  11. fitified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fitfully (page history and authors); fitfully (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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