Entry Word: fitful

Function: adjective

Meaning: lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrence <a night of fitful sleep did not leave me feeling well rested the next morning>

Synonyms casual, choppy, discontinuous, erratic, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady

Related Words convulsive, sudden, violent; broken, disconnected, fragmentary, interrupted; desultory, haphazard, hit-or-miss, random; changing, fluctuating, unstable, varying, wavering; changeable, fickle, variable

Near Antonyms equable, even, stable, uniform; unchanging, unvarying, unwavering; methodical, orderly, systematic

Antonyms constant, continuous, regular, steady