pell-mell
21pell-mell — adverb old fashioned rushing very quickly, and in a way that seems uncontrolled: The children ran pell mell out of school …
22pell-mell — or pell•mell [[t]ˈpɛlˈmɛl[/t]] adv. 1) in a recklessly hurried manner 2) in a disordered mass 3) disorderly or confused 4) cvb overhasty or precipitate; rash 5) a jumbled mass, crowd, etc 6) disorderly, headlong haste • Etymology: 1570–80; <… …
23pell-mell — 1. adjective Hasty, uncontrolled. Nor moody beggars, starving for a time / Of pellmell havoc and confusion. 2. adverb In haste, uncontrolledly …
24pell mell — Synonyms and related words: ado, agitation, amain, apace, at once, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bustle, by forced marches, commotion, cursorily, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence,… …
25pell-mell — Synonyms and related words: bedlam, brouhaha, chaos, chaotic, chaotically, commotion, confused, confusedly, confusion, disorder, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, excitement, feverish, feverishly, hastily, hasty, helter skelter, hubbub,… …
26pell-mell — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. impetuously, hurriedly, indiscreetly; see foolishly , rashly . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) adv. helter skelter, hastily, carelessly, recklessly, heedlessly, slapdash, hurriedly, abruptly, impetuously, wildly. ANT.:… …
27pell-mell — In a state of confusion. See also pall mall …
28pell-mell — adv. in a hurried and disorganized fashion adj. hurried and disorganized …
29pell-mell — adjective & adverb in a confused, rushed, or disorderly way. noun a confused mixture; disorder. Origin C16: from Fr. pêle mêle, from earlier pesle mesle, mesle pesle, reduplication from mesler to mix …
30pell-mell — ad. Confusedly, irregularly, disorderly, in confusion, in disorder, helter skelter, at sixes and sevens …
