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fits and starts synonyms

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  • adventitious
  • casual
  • chance
  • coincidental
  • contingent
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • inadvertent
  • incidental
  • random
  • uncalculated
  • unexpected
  • unforeseen
  • unintended
  • unintentional
  • unplanned
  • carelessly
  • indifferently
  • accidental
  • any which way
  • blind
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • chance
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • fortuitous
  • amaurotic
  • blind as a bat
  • dark
  • destitute of vision
  • eyeless
  • groping
  • in darkness
  • purblind
  • typhlotic
  • undiscerning
  • unseeing
  • unsighted
  • visionless
  • any way the wind blows
  • arbitrary
  • blowing hot and cold
  • careless
  • changeful
  • contrary
  • crotchety
  • effervescent
  • erratic
  • every which way
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fitful
  • flaky
  • flighty
  • freakish
  • absent-minded
  • abstracted
  • casual
  • cursory
  • disregardful
  • forgetful
  • hasty
  • heedless
  • improvident
  • imprudent
  • inaccurate
  • inadvertent
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • indifferent
  • indiscreet
  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • by chance
  • contingent
  • erratic
  • extemporaneous
  • extempore
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • impromptu
  • improvised
  • impulsive
  • incidental
  • infrequent
  • irregular
  • occasional
  • adventitious
  • at random
  • casual
  • contingent
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • fortunate
  • happy
  • inadvertent
  • incidental
  • lucky
  • odd
  • offhand
  • unforeseen
  • unintentional
  • unlooked for
  • aimless
  • chance
  • chaotic
  • deviating
  • erratic
  • haphazard
  • orderless
  • rambling
  • unmethodical
  • unstable
  • unsystematic
  • without purpose
  • aimless
  • goalless
  • purposeless
  • accumulate
  • aim
  • amass
  • amble
  • be carried along
  • coast
  • dance
  • draw near
  • flicker
  • flit
  • flitter
  • float
  • flow
  • flutter
  • gad
  • gallivant
  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • anomalous
  • arbitrary
  • bizarre
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • desultory
  • devious
  • dicey
  • directionless
  • dubious
  • eccentric
  • fitful
  • flaky
  • fluctuant
  • absurd
  • aerial
  • bizarre
  • blue sky
  • capricious
  • castles in the air
  • chimerical
  • curious
  • dreamlike
  • extravagant
  • fabulous
  • fairy-tale
  • fancied
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • fictional
  • arbitrary
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • cheating
  • coquettish
  • double-crossing
  • faithless
  • fitful
  • flighty
  • frivolous
  • inconstant
  • irresolute
  • lubricious
  • mercurial
  • mutable
  • quicksilver
  • airheaded
  • birdbrained
  • bubbleheaded
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • dingbat
  • dingdong
  • dizzy
  • effervescent
  • empty-headed
  • featherbrained
  • frivolous
  • gaga
  • giddy
  • harebrained
  • impetuous
  • arbitrary
  • casual
  • chance
  • contingent
  • fluke
  • fluky
  • fortunate
  • haphazard
  • happy
  • incidental
  • luck in
  • luck out
  • lucky-dog
  • odd
  • providential
  • random
  • barmy
  • childish
  • dizzy
  • empty-headed
  • facetious
  • featherbrained
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flippant
  • foolish
  • gay
  • giddy
  • harebrained
  • idiotic
  • idle
  • ill-considered
  • aimless
  • directionless
  • purposeless
  • accidental
  • aimless
  • all over the map
  • any old way
  • any which way
  • arbitrary
  • careless
  • casual
  • chance
  • designless
  • desultory
  • devil-may-care
  • disorderly
  • disorganized
  • erratic
  • fluke
  • asleep at the switch
  • daydreaming
  • disregardful
  • fast and loose
  • feckless
  • foolhardy
  • goofing off
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • inadvertent
  • inattentive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • irreflective
  • neglectful
  • negligent
  • accidental
  • aimless
  • arbitrary
  • casual
  • chance
  • contingent
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • haphazard
  • incidental
  • irregular
  • slipshod
  • trial-and error
  • unplanned
  • unpremeditated
  • astraddle
  • changeable
  • doubtful
  • faltering
  • halting
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot and cold
  • inconclusive
  • indeterminate
  • irresolute
  • of two minds
  • on the fence
  • tentative
  • unclear
  • aimless
  • assorted
  • broad
  • careless
  • confused
  • designless
  • desultory
  • extensive
  • general
  • haphazard
  • heterogeneous
  • hit-or-miss
  • imperceptive
  • jumbled
  • mingled
  • miscellaneous
  • changing
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • faltering
  • fearful
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • halfhearted
  • halting
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot-and-cold
  • infirm
  • on-the-fence
  • shaky
  • tentative
  • accidental
  • any which way
  • bits-and-pieces
  • blind
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • chance
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • absurd
  • aimless
  • around in circles
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • going nowhere
  • impotent
  • in vicious circle
  • inane
  • inconsequential
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • insignificant
  • irrelevant
  • meaningless
  • needle in haystack
  • aimless
  • designless
  • desultory
  • drifting
  • empty
  • feckless
  • floundering
  • fustian
  • goalless
  • good-for-nothing
  • haphazard
  • hit-or-miss
  • indiscriminate
  • irregular
  • meaningless
  • motiveless
  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • aimless
  • arbitrary
  • casual
  • contingent
  • designless
  • desultory
  • driftless
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • hit-or-miss
  • incidental
  • indiscriminate
  • irregular
  • objectless
  • apathetic
  • dallying
  • directionless
  • good-for-nothing
  • idle
  • inattentive
  • incompetent
  • indolent
  • lackadaisical
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • loafing
  • procrastinating
  • slack
  • devious
  • erratic
  • homeless
  • lost
  • roaming
  • roving
  • vagrant
  • antisocial
  • apathetic
  • asocial
  • blind
  • boorish
  • brash
  • deaf
  • discourteous
  • egocentric
  • hasty
  • heedless
  • hot-headed
  • impolite
  • inattentive
  • incautious
  • indelicate
  • barren
  • empty
  • exhausted
  • fruitless
  • idle
  • impractical
  • in vain
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • on a treadmill
  • save one's breath
  • to no avail
  • to no effect
  • to no purpose
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • accidental
  • any which way
  • bits-and-pieces
  • blind
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • chance
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • accidental
  • any which way
  • bits-and-pieces
  • blind
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • chance
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • aleatory
  • fortuitous
  • haphazard
  • impromptu
  • random
  • spontaneous
  • undesigned
  • unexpected
  • unintended
  • unintentional
  • capricious
  • chance
  • chancy
  • dicey
  • doubtful
  • erratic
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • fluky
  • from left field
  • hanging by a thread
  • iffy
  • incalculable
  • inconstant
  • random
  • touch and go
  • drifter
  • floater
  • homeless person
  • itinerant
  • rolling stone
  • street person
  • transient
  • wanderer
  • deviating
  • devious
  • digressive
  • drifting
  • errant
  • erratic
  • excursive
  • landloping
  • meandering
  • migrant
  • migratory
  • nomadic
  • planetary
  • rambling
  • roaming
  • roving
  • X-rated
  • abandoned
  • fast
  • lax
  • lewd
  • libertine
  • libidinous
  • licentious
  • outrageous
  • profligate
  • promiscuous
  • shameless
  • speedy
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • wayward
  • aberrant
  • arbitrary
  • balky
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • contumacious
  • cross-grained
  • delinquent
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • errant
  • erratic
  • fickle
  • flighty
  • fractious
  • froward

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