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welter
Synonyms and Antonyms of welter
- there was a welter of pushing and shoving as people rushed to grab the best seats for the outdoor concert
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, helter-skelter, 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, whirl, williwaw, zoo
calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility)
- a welter of junk in the closet, most of which needed to be thrown out
agglomerate, agglomeration, alphabet soup, assortment, botch, clutter, collage, crazy quilt, farrago, gallimaufry, grab bag, gumbo, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jambalaya, jumble, jungle, litter, macédoine, medley, mélange, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, montage, motley, muddle, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, ragout, rummage, salad, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, smorgasbord, stew, tumble, variety
detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundries
accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomerate, conglomeration
admixture, alloy, amalgam, blend, combination, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, intermixture, mix-up
bollix, chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, dog's breakfast [chiefly British], mess, morass, muddle, shambles
- the claim that a troop withdrawal would plunge the country into a welter of anarchy and endless civil war
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