different between fluctuating vs fitful
fluctuating
English
Verb
fluctuating
- present participle of fluctuate
Noun
fluctuating (plural fluctuatings)
- A fluctuation.
fluctuating From the web:
- what fluctuation means
- what's fluctuating demand
- what's fluctuating current
- fluctuating what does it mean
- what causes fluctuating blood pressure
- what is fluctuating capital
- what is fluctuating capital method
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fitful
English
Etymology
From fit +? -ful.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fitful (comparative more fitful, superlative most fitful)
- Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits.
- His breathing was fitful.
- 1605, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act III
- […] Duncan is in his grave;
- After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 123
- The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door [...]
- 2012, The Economist, The economy: Don’t say “green shoots”
- So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
Synonyms
- intermittent, spasmodic; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous
Derived terms
- fitfully
- fitfulness
Translations
fitful From the web:
- what's fitful mean
- what fitful sleep meaning
- fitfully what does it mean
- what is fitful gust
- what causes fitful sleep
- what does pitiful mean
- what is fitful sleep
- what does fitful sleep mean
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