fitful's Usage Examples:

Yet, in spite of all corruption, ideas of the intelligent development of the subject lands, visions of the Hellenic king, as the Greek thinkers had come to picture him, haunted the Macedonian rulers, and perhaps fitfully, in the intervals of war or carousal, prompted some degree of action.

In 1728 fitful communication was restored by the then representative of the Ogasawara family, only to be again interrupted until 1861, when an unsuccessful attempt was made to establish a Japanese colony at Port Lloyd.

They have no drainage to the sea, save fitfully for slight areas through the Colorado river.

  Deidre slept, and Katie drifted between a fitful doze and her thoughts.

For the remainder of the reign the Persian War was continued fitfully, a treaty of peace, signed in 1611, not being observed.

Yully slept fitfully and awoke before dawn, unable to rest with her troubled thoughts.

Cassie slept fitfully that night and woke in the morning with a start.

He slept, fitfully, though this time he remembered no dreams.

These could be hallucinations, couldn't they?What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche.

Urged by the duke of Argyll, Tennyson now turned his attention to the theme of the Holy Grail, though he progressed with it but fitfully and slowly.

The Six Articles were only fitfully put in execution, especially in 1543 and 1546: all the plots against Cranmer failed; and before he died Henry was even considering the advisability of further steps in the religious reformation, apart from mere spoliation like the confiscation of the chantry lands.

She slept fitfully between her busy thoughts, sheer exhaustion claiming her in spurts.

Synonyms:

spasmodic, sporadic,

Antonyms:

sound, undamaged, continual,