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helter-skelter
Synonyms and Antonyms of helter-skelter
- a bill that was pushed through committee in a last-minute helter-skelter burst of legislative activity
- papers, books, and unopened mail were stacked helter-skelter on the desk
established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady
arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned
aware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful (or wilful)
methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized
helter-skelter
Synonyms and Antonyms of helter-skelter
- the sheep ran helter-skelter inside their pen when the coyote appeared in their midst
amok (or amuck), berserk, berserkly, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, harum-scarum, hectically, madly, pell-mell, wild, wildly
- goods arranged helter-skelter on the shelves of the variety store
helter-skelter
Synonyms and Antonyms of helter-skelter
- in the helter-skelter at the amusement park the child got separated from his parents
ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter [chiefly dialect], coil, commotion, corroboree [Australian], disturbance, do [chiefly dialect], foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or hurry-skurry), kerfuffle [chiefly British], moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore [Scottish], squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility)
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