FITFULLY Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

fitfully

adverb

as in intermittently

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Recent Examples of fitfully Using the history of gay male desire in different time periods — dangerous, clandestine, outlawed and at long last fitfully accepted — the film examines legacy and what gets handed down across time. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 The latest, directed by Julio Quintana, stars Zachary Levi and is fitfully diverting, draped with calming New Mexico scenery. — Michael Phillips, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 The participants in the meditation group slept more fitfully, with more frequent awakenings, than those who didn’t meditate. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 Martin Filler The Met’s new Tristan und Isolde was a vocal triumph for Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres, but Yuval Sharon’s staging only fitfully captured the essence of Wagner’s masterpiece. — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026 That’s Duncan’s dilemma from the very beginning of this fitfully hilarious episode of The Audacity. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2026 Bella Ramsey takes a break from killing zombies and avenging father figures, their usual pastimes in series The Last of Us, to fool around and fall in love in Sunny Dancer, a decidedly uneven but fitfully charming, YA-skewed British comedy-drama. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026 While many talk shows began as fitfully amusing discussions around relevant issues, some soon devolved into sordid and exploitative freak shows that encouraged verbal and physical altercations. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026 The city has been fitfully pursuing plans to renovate the stadium, widely regarded as an architectural and engineering marvel, since the administration of Mayor Tomás Regalado, who left office in 2017. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026

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The administration has also intermittently pressured Ukraine to cave in its war of survival against Russian aggression.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Both robots had equal-power motors, with one providing steady, continuous motion in the rigid legs and the other intermittently storing energy and releasing it in snaps.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of intermittently

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However, that stiffness can make physical interactions harder to manage, especially when objects move unpredictably or require a softer touch.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Over time, the tags fall off or attach chaotically, meaning tags are inconsistent between cells and genes start turning on unpredictably.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of unpredictably

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