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Fitful vs Gusty - What's the difference?

fitful | gusty |

As adjectives the difference between fitful and gusty

is that fitful is irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits while gusty is (of wind) blowing in gusts; blustery.

fitful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits.
    • His breathing was fitful .
  • *1605 , Shakespeare, Macbeth ,
    • [...] Duncan is in his grave;
    After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
  • *1851 ,
  • *: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.

    • Derived terms

    * fitfully * fitfulness

    gusty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of wind) blowing in gusts; blustery

    • Quotations

    * 2003 , Lauren Henderson, My Lurid Past , page 48: *: A gusty sigh preceded the inevitable bad news. “You know that gig I was up for?” he asked rhetorically. “I didn't get it.”

    Related terms

    * gustily * gustiness

    Anagrams

    * gutsy