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pell-mell

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pell-mell

1 acting or done with excessive or careless speed

  • when the theater doors opened, there was a pell-mell rush for the best seats
Synonyms of pell-mell

cursory, drive-by, flying, gadarene, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed
Words Related to pell-mell

breakneck, breathtaking

headstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvised

quick, rapid, speedy, swift

horseback, impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, rush, slapdash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment

abrupt, sudden
Near Antonyms of pell-mell

calculated, calculating, measured

circumspect, foresighted, forethoughtful

drawn-out, extended, long-term, prolonged

faltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentative

dallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky (or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow
Antonyms of pell-mell

deliberate, unhurried, unrushed

2 lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

  • pell-mell piles of books everywhere in the professor's library
Synonyms of pell-mell

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, unkempt, untidy, upside-down
Words Related to pell-mell

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly, uncombed

wrinkled

adulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted

knotted, snarled, tangled

seedy, shabby, sleazy, sordid

neglected, neglectful, negligent
Phrases Synonymous with pell-mell

at sixes and sevens, out of joint
Near Antonyms of pell-mell

antiseptic, clean, cleaned, cleanly, hygienic, immaculate, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied

methodical (also methodic), regular, systematic, systematized

careful, fastidious, finicky, fussy, meticulous

combed, groomed, manicured, well-groomed

taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome
Antonyms of pell-mell

bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered

pell-mell

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of pell-mell

1 in a confused and reckless manner

  • tossed stuff pell-mell into the dorm room
Synonyms of pell-mell

amok (or amuck), berserk, berserkly, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, harum-scarum, hectically, helter-skelter, madly, wild, wildly
Words Related to pell-mell

agitatedly, confusedly, crazily, desperately, feverishly, haywire, skittishly, uncontrollably

heedlessly, hotheadedly, recklessly, wantonly

chaotically, riotously, tumultuously, turbulently

aimlessly, haphazard, haphazardly, hit-or-miss, topsy-turvy
Near Antonyms of pell-mell

calmly, collectedly, composedly, coolly (also cooly), imperturbably, peacefully, placidly, self-composedly, self-possessedly, serenely, unconcernedly

meekly, mildly, passively, tamely

methodically, orderly, systematically

2 with excessive or careless speed

  • ran pell-mell down the road to get help
Synonyms of pell-mell

cursorily, hastily, headlong, hotfoot, hurriedly, precipitately, precipitously, rashly
Words Related to pell-mell

headfirst, headily, hotheadedly, impatiently, impetuously, impulsively, recklessly, thoughtlessly

automatically, glancingly, haphazardly

impromptu, spontaneously

abruptly, suddenly

offhand, offhandedly
Phrases Synonymous with pell-mell

on the spur of the moment
Near Antonyms of pell-mell

calculatingly, circumspectly, designedly

falteringly, haltingly, hesitantly, hesitatingly, tentatively

leisurely, slowly
Antonyms of pell-mell

deliberately, studiedly

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