helter-skelter
adjective
1 helter-skelter
2 helter-skelter
With undue hurry and confusion:
— A helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause.
synonym: pell-mell.
adverb
1 helter-skelter
Haphazardly:
— The books were piled up helter-skelter.
synonym: every which way.
Roget 59: irregularly etc. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down ... show more
Roget 684: with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste etc. adj.; apace etc. (swiftly) 274; amain†; all at once etc. ... show more
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