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pell-mell

See definition of pell-mell on Dictionary.com
  • adj.disordered
  • adv.hurriedly and carelessly
  • noundisorder

synonyms for pell-mell

  • chaotic
  • confused
  • disarrayed
  • disorganized
  • haphazard
  • muddled
  • tumultous/tumultuous
On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pell-mell, such as: chaotic, confused, disarrayed, disorganized, haphazard, and muddled.

antonyms for pell-mell

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  • ordered
  • organized
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How to use pell-mell in a sentence

We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
The scene beggars description; bags, bundles, bales, boxes are pitched out pell-mell.
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLDG. E. MITTON
Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.
THE LORD OF THE SEAM. P. SHIEL
Her first thought was of the rabbit, and she came running pell-mell across the garden to greet him.
BUMPER, THE WHITE RABBITGEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH
Toby clapped both hands to his ears, and in a flash the red-headed girl seized Bumper in her arms and ran pell-mell from the room.
BUMPER, THE WHITE RABBITGEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH
The virgin's reserve before man is but a very moderate bashfulness if compared with the pell-mell flight of a young mole intacta.
THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF LOVEREMY DE GOURMONT
There came reverses to him, and his books were stored away pell mell in the loft.
THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYLEO WIENER
They would all follow pell-mell; then in a few minutes they would come rushing back again.
BEAUTIFUL JOEMARSHALL SAUNDERS
The girls sorted them eagerly, putting them pell-mell into the drawers without the slightest attempt at any sort of order.
BETTY VIVIANL. T. MEADE
A few missiles were discharged; a few lanes ploughed among them, and then pell-mell the mass vanished in the forest.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THIRTY-NINE YEARS IN THE ARMYCHARLES ALEXANDER GORDON
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WORDS RELATED TO PELL-MELL

  • aimlessly
  • at random
  • confusedly
  • frantically
  • in all directions
  • indiscriminately
  • instinctively
  • madly
  • pell-mell
  • purposelessly
  • wildly
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