What does fits and starts mean?we found 2 entries for the meaning of fits and starts
 

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "fits and starts": ague, arrhythmia, brokenness, bumpiness, capriciousness, chattering, choppiness, chorea, cold shivers, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, eccentricity, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fluctuation, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, nonuniformity, palsy, patchiness, quaking, quavering, quivering, roughness, shakes, shaking, shivering, shivers, shuddering, spasms, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, succussion, trembling, tremulousness, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variability, vibration, whimsicality, wobble

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

fits and starts

noun

repeated bursts of activity; "they worked in fits and starts"

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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