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| 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. | |
Crosswords: BY FITS |
| English words defined with "BY FITS": by fits and starts ♦ with many interruptions. (references) |
Expressions using "BY FITS": ad by fits and starts ♦ 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"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në mënyrë të çrregullt (by fits and starts, fitfully, slovenly), me hope (by fits and starts, fitful, fitfully, patchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مناوبة (alternation, by fits and starts, relay, rotation, shift, turn of duty, watch), على نحو متقطع (by fits and starts, off and on, on and off), بالتناوب (alternately, by fits and starts, every other, intermittent, off and on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неравномерно (by fits and starts), на пресекулки (by fits and starts, fitfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nesoustavnì (by fits and starts), nárazovì (by fits and starts, fitfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sysäyksittäin (by fits and starts), puuskittain (at intervals, by fits and starts, in spells), puuskassa (at intervals, by fits and starts, in spells), nykien (by fits and starts), hetkittäin (at times, by fits and starts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans continuation (by fits and starts), par roulement (by fits and starts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לסרו'ין (alternately, by fits and starts, every other, fitful, in instalments, intermittently, off and on, on and off), לא בקביעות (by fits and starts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szeszélyesen (by fits and starts, fitfully, wantonly), megszakítva (by fits and starts, intermittently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ybay itsfay lucra inegal (work by fits and starts), cu întreruperi (by fits and starts, fitful, off and on). (various references) рывками (by fits and starts), неравномерно (by fits and starts). (various references) s vremena na vreme (fit: by fits and starts, now and then). (various references) esporádicamente (by fits and starts), a empujones (by fits and starts). (various references) ryckvis (by fits and starts, spasmodically). (various references) gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, casual, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), düzensiz surette (by fits and starts), düzensiz bir şekilde (by fits and starts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-f-i-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: bitsy. | |
-2 letters: bits, fibs, fist, fits, sift. | |
-3 letters: bis, bit, bys, fib, fit, ifs, its, sib, sit, sty, tis. | |
-4 letters: bi, by, if, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f-i-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: biosafety. | |
+4 letters: fusibility. | |
+5 letters: feasibility, fibrocystic, fishability, justifiably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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