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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Fitful
Description: Fitful is an adjective that means sporadic or disrupted.
Our word of the day combines the Middle English word fit (meaning ‘appropriate’) with the suffix FUL (meaning ‘full of.’) Here’s an example of it in use:
My sleep last week was fitful. I’d have a good night here or a good night there, but overall it was too sporadic for me to feel well-rested.