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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fits and starts has 1 sense

• fits and starts(n = noun.act) Array - repeated bursts of activity; "they worked in fits and starts"
is a kind of burst, fit

THESAURUS

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

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