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weltersnounpl. of welter a state of noisy, confused activitythere was a welter of pushing and shoving as people rushed to grab the best seats for the outdoor concert ados, alarums and excursions, ballyhoos, blathers, bluster, bobberies, bothers, bustles, clatters, clutters(chiefly dialect), coils, commotions, corroborees(Australian), disturbances, dos(or do's, chiefly dialect), foofaraws, fun, furores, furors, fusses, helter-skelters, hoo-has(also hoo-hahs), hooplas, hubble-bubbles, hubbubs, hullabaloos, hurlies, hurly-burlies, hurricanes, hurry-scurries(or hurry-skurries), kerfuffles(chiefly British), moils, pandemoniums, pothers, rows, ruckuses, ructions, rumpuses, shindys(or shindies), splores(Scottish), squalls, stews, stirs, storms, to-dos, tumults, turmoils, uproars, whirls, williwaws, zoos cacophonies, clamors, dins, howls, hue and cries, noises, outcries, rackets, roarsdisorders, upheavalseruptions, flare-ups, flurries, flutters, outbreaks, outburstsbrawls, fracases(or British fracas), frays, hassles, melees(also mêlées), scufflesdithers, fevers, frets, lathers, tizzies calms, hushes, peaces, quiets, quietudes, rests, tranquillities(or tranquilities)orders an unorganized collection or mixture of various thingsa welter of junk in the closet, most of which needed to be thrown out agglomerates, agglomerations, alphabet soups, assortments, botches, clutters, collages, crazy quilts, farragoes, gallimaufries, grab bags, gumbos, hashes, hodgepodges, hotchpotches, jambalayas, jumbles, jungles, litters, macédoines, medleys, mélanges, menageries, miscellanea, miscellanies, mishmashes, mixed bags, montages, motleys, muddles, olios, olla podridas(also ollas podridas), omnium-gatherums, pastiches, patchwork quilts, patchworks, potpourris, ragbags, ragouts, rummages, salads, salmagundis, scrambles, shuffles, smorgasbords, stews, tumbles, varieties detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundriesaccumulations, aggregates, aggregations, conglomerates, conglomerationscatchallsadmixtures, alloys, amalgams, blends, combinations, commixtures, composites, compounds, fusions, intermixtures, mix-upsbollixes, chaoses, confusions, disarrangements, disarrays, disorders, dog's breakfasts(chiefly British), messes, morasses, muddles, shamblesimbroglios, knots, snarls, tangles a state in which everything is out of orderthe claim that a troop withdrawal would plunge the country into a welter of anarchy and endless civil war chance-medleys, chaoses, confusions, disarrangements, disarrays, dishevelments, disorders, disorganizations, free-for-alls, havoc, hecks, hells, jumbles, mare's nests(or mares' nests), messes, misorders, muddles, musses, shambles, snake pits, tumbles anarchies, misrules, riotsknots, snarls, tangleslabyrinths, mazes, websmaelstroms, stormsbollixes, clutters, litters, mishmashes, shuffleshodgepodges, medleys, miscellanies, morasses, motleys orders methods, patterns, plans, systems |