FIT

n. 1 attack, seizure, convulsion, spasm, spell, paroxysm, bout, throe She has periodic fits of severe depression 2 outburst, outbreak, paroxysm, spell, period Occasionally, Gurning would go into a fit of hysterical laughter 3 tantrum; eruption, explosion She throws a fit if I so much as mention Maria's name 4 by fits and starts. sporadically, occasionally, fitfully, spasmodically, intermittently, erratically, haphazardly, now and then, irregularly, unsystematically; unreliably The fridge works only by fits and starts