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helter-skelteradjective acting or done with excessive or careless speeda bill that was pushed through committee in a last-minute helter-skelter burst of legislative activity cursory, drive-by, flying, gadarene, hasty, headlong, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed breakneck, breathtakingheadstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvisedquick, rapid, speedy, swifthorseback, impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, rush, slapdash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-momentabrupt, sudden deliberate, unhurried, unrushed calculated, calculating, measuredcircumspect, foresighted, forethoughtfuldrawn-out, extended, long-term, prolongedfaltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentativedallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky(or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow lacking a definite plan, purpose, or patternpapers, books, and unopened mail were stacked helter-skelter on the desk aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, random, scattered, slapdash, stray accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky(also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditatedscattershot, shotgunirregular, odd, sporadic, spotdirectionless, objectless, purposelessindiscriminate, unsystematicundirecteddisorderly, disorganizedundiscriminating, unselective methodical(also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steadyconstant, continuous, evenarranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, plannedaware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful(or wilful) in a confused and reckless mannerthe 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 agitatedly, confusedly, crazily, desperately, feverishly, haywire, skittishly, uncontrollablyheedlessly, hotheadedly, recklessly, wantonlychaotically, riotously, tumultuously, turbulentlyaimlessly, haphazard, haphazardly, hit-or-miss, topsy-turvy calmly, collectedly, composedly, coolly(also cooly), imperturbably, peacefully, placidly, self-composedly, self-possessedly, serenely, unconcernedlymeekly, mildly, passively, tamelymethodically, orderly, systematically without definite aim, direction, rule, or methodgoods arranged helter-skelter on the shelves of the variety store aimlessly, anyhow, anyway, anywise, desultorily, erratically, haphazard, haphazardly, hit or miss, irregularly, randomly, willy-nilly arbitrarily, capriciously, carelessly, casually, indiscriminately, informally, offhand, offhandedly, promiscuously, whimsicallyaccidentally, fortuitously, inadvertently, unconsciously, unintentionally, unwittinglydisconnectedly, disjointedly, fitfully, intermittently, spottily, unpredictablyhiggledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy at random methodically, systematically carefully, formally, gingerly, meticulously, orderly, punctiliouslydeliberately, intentionally, purposefully, purposely a state of noisy, confused activityin 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 cacophony, clamor, din, howl, hue and cry, noise, outcry, racket, roardisorder, unrest, upheavaleruption, flare-up, flurry, flutter, outbreak, outburstbrawl, fracas, fray, hassle, melee(also mêlée), scuffledither, fever, fret, lather, tizzy calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity(or tranquility)order, orderliness in 1593 |