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Definition: By Fits And Starts |
By Fits And StartsAdverb1. Intermittently; "he worked on his book by fits and starts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: By Fits And StartsSynonym: with many interruptions (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Adverb: by fits and starts; subsultorily; Adjective: per saltum; hop skip and jump; in convulsions, in fits. |
Caprice | Adverb: by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason. |
Discontinuity | Adverb: at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts; skippingly, per saltum; longo intervallo. |
Disorder | Adverb: irregularly; Adjective: 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. |
Haste | By fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump. |
Irregularity of recurrence | Adverb: irregularly; Adjective: by fits and starts; (discontinuously). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "by fits and starts": ad by fits and starts ♦ work by fits and starts. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "by fits and starts"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në mënyrë të çrregullt (fitfully, slovenly), me hope (fitful, fitfully, patchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مناوبة (alternation, relay, rotation, shift, turn of duty, watch), على نحو متقطع (off and on, on and off), بالتناوب (alternately, every other, intermittent, off and on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неравномерно, на пресекулки (fitfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nesoustavnì, nárazovì (fitfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sysäyksittäin, puuskittain (at intervals, in spells), puuskassa (at intervals, in spells), nykien, hetkittäin (at times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans continuation, par roulement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לסרו'ין (alternately, every other, fitful, in instalments, intermittently, off and on, on and off), לא בקביעות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szeszélyesen (fitfully, wantonly), megszakítva (intermittently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ybay itsfay anday artsstay cu întreruperi (fitful, off and on). (various references) рывками, неравномерно. (various references) s vremena na vreme (fit: by fits and starts, now and then). (various references) esporádicamente, a empujones. (various references) ryckvis (spasmodically). (various references) gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, casual, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), düzensiz surette, düzensiz bir şekilde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-f-i-n-r-s-s-s-t-t-t-y" | |
-5 letters: fantasists. | |
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