Pell-mell synonyms

pĕl'mĕl'

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hurriedly
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chaos
(Math.) A pattern or state of order existing within apparent disorder, as in the irregularities of a coastline or a snowflake
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disarray
Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
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in a rush
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turmoil
A state of extreme confusion or agitation; commotion or tumult:
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carelessly
Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly.
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frantically
Frantically is defined as being done in a wild or frenzied way.
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frenziedly
In a frenzied manner.
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hastily
In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
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heedlessly
In a heedless manner.
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in disorder
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madly
Foolishly
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wildly
In a wild, uncontrolled manner.
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ordered (antonym)
(comparative more ordered, superlative most ordered)
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organized (antonym)
Functioning in an orderly way or according to a plan:
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carefully (antonym)
hurriedly and carelessly
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cautiously (antonym)
hurriedly and carelessly
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order (antonym)
The prescribed form or customary procedure, as in a meeting or court of law:
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organization (antonym)
(Countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
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harum-scarum
in a wild or reckless manner
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foolishly (related)
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rashly (related)
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confusion
The definition of confusion is a state of bewilderment, misunderstanding or chaos.
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haphazard
Mere chance; accident; fortuity
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headlong
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Pell-mell Sentence Examples

  • This took place on the night of the 22nd of April 1826; but a mistaken order threw the ranks of the Greeks into disorder, and the Turks entered the town pell-mell with the retreating crowd.

  • He drives pell-mell out of Washington because of air raid dangers, onto his estate, then back to Washington... .

  • The incoming workers returning pollen-laden from the fields, carried away by the prevailing excitement, do not stop to unload their burdens in the old home, but join the enthusiastic emigrants, tumbling over each other pell-mell in the outrush; among them the queen of the colony will in due course have taken her place, bound like her children for a new home.

  • It's great, intoxicating darkness, going pell mell for the burn.

  • Chamberlain, the necessity of committing to memory two syllabaries, one of which has many variant forms, and at least two or three thousand Chinese ideographs, in forms standard and cursive ideographs, too, most of which are susceptible of three or four different readings according to circuinstance,add, further, that all these kinds of written symbols are apt to be encountered pell mell on the same page, and the task of mastering Japanese becomes almost Herculean.

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