What does pell-mell mean?
Pell-mell means Hasty and uncontrolled..
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/ˈpɛlˈmɛl/ · adjective
Hasty and uncontrolled..
Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.
These present the appearance of masses of water-worn gravel, mixed in the most pell mell confusion, the boulders being often of very large size; but I observed no striae, nor any of the blue tenacious clay of the Till, which it so much resembled.
The whole district presents the most pell-mell throwing together imaginable.
The pell mell, hell for leather traffic of Lagos was more pell mell, hell for leather than ever.
The cattle are less disciplined, more pell-mell, heavy-footed, their hooves stamping the ground to mud in several places.
China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.
But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]
Never was there a great battle fought more pell-mell, since war began; never was valor so completely thrown away.
Use pell-mell when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pell-mell means Hasty and uncontrolled..
Common synonyms include helter-skelter, hurried, harum-scarum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.
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