fitful

英語

源自fit (「抽搐；突然活躍」) +‎ -ful (從名詞構成形容詞的後綴，「充滿...的」，「傾向於...的」，「有...性質的」)。^[1]

fitful (比較級 more fitful，最高級 most fitful)

(棄用) 抽搐的
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, 「The Tragedie of Macbeth」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]，第 140 頁，第 2 列:
  Duncane is in his Graue: / After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well, / Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon, / Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing, / Can touch him further.
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(引申義) 斷斷續續的，間歇的，不規則的，一陣一陣的
近義詞：capricious、changeable、changing、erratic、shifting、spasmodic；亦參見Thesaurus:discontinuous

反義詞：unfitful；亦參見Thesaurus:continuous

His breathing was fitful.
他的呼吸不均勻。

Troubled by her unfinished work, she fell into a fitful sleep.
因為受沒有完成的工作折磨，她斷斷續續地睡着了。
- Template:RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake
- Template:RQ:Byron Siege of Corinth
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
- 2012年10月27日, 「The economy: Don’t say 『green shoots』: Britain emerges from its second recession in four years」, 出自 The Economist‎^[1], London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC，於29 October 2012歸檔自原頁面:
  So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
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