0 often stopping and starting and not happening in a regular or continuous way: --
1 going off and on irregularly: --
Her breathing is fitful.
When one is dealing with fitful power, there has to be standby plant.
It is rather that the patient's mind is uncertain; it is fitful; it is variable; it has little certainty or clearness of purpose.
The prospects of agriculture are gloomy to-day, but there are fitful gleams of light and hope.
It will entrench democracy and the principles of a modern economy in countries whose attachment to both has been fitful throughout the 20th century.
I cannot regard any fitful contacts which may occur, or which have occurred, as being satisfactory.
The incidence of this tax is arbitrary and fitful.
If workers who were paid according to production gained more from this fitful, even speculative, extension of the working day, those who worked for fixed wages were exploited more intensively.
The fitful and irregular incidents of the market cannot for the greater part be reduced to order, and brought directly within the grasp of scientific machinery.
