'fits and starts' definitions:
Definition of 'fits and starts'
(from WordNet)
noun
Repeated bursts of activity; "they worked in fits and starts"
Synonyms of 'fits and starts'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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