Fitful vs Recurrent - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between fitful and recurrent is that fitful is irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits while recurrent is recurrent; recurring.
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
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recurrent English
Adjective
( wikipedia recurrent)
( -)
Recurring time after time.
- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
Running back toward its origin.
- a recurrent nerve or artery
Synonyms
* (math) persistent
Related terms
* quasirecurrent
* recurrence
Anagrams
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