- by fits and starts as a adverb:
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by fits and starts
adverb
1 by fits and starts
Intermittently.
Roget 608: by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.
Roget 684: with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste etc. adj.; apace etc. (swiftly) 274; amain†; all at once etc. ... show more
Roget 315: by fits and starts; subsultorily† etc. adj.†; per saltum [Lat.]; hop skip and jump; in convulsions, in fits.
Roget 139: irregularly etc. adj.; by fits and starts etc. (discontinuously) 70.
Roget 70: at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts; skippingly†, per saltum [Lat.]; longo intervallo [It].
Roget 59: irregularly etc. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down ... show more
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