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Definition of pell-mell in English: pell-melladverb pɛlˈmɛlpɛlˈmɛl In a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner. they rushed pell-mell up the hill Example sentencesExamples - Even groups that we have admired are now in pell-mell cowardly retreat.
- Bernard embarked on pell-mell international expansion, building strong operations across the rest of Europe, Asia and Latin America.
- She ran down the stairs, chasing the rat with a marble pell-mell.
- Behind the marked turnaround: pell-mell economic growth, an ultra-easy monetary policy, and a bank lending boom.
- His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road.
Synonyms helter-skelter, headlong, (at) full tilt, hotfoot, post-haste, hurriedly, hastily wildly, impetuously, recklessly, rashly, precipitately, impulsively informal slap bang archaic hurry-scurry in disorder, in confusion, in a muddle/jumble, in disarray, in a disorganized manner, untidily, in a mess, in a heap, anyhow informal all over the place, every which way British informal all over the shop, shambolically North American informal all over the map, all over the lot
adjective pɛlˈmɛlpɛlˈmɛl Hasty or disorganized. steps to slow the pell-mell pace of deforestation Example sentencesExamples - U.S. companies continue a pell-mell rush into offshore outsourcing of software development.
- What's been largely missing, though, through these pell-mell days, has been the time to rethink pat agendas rather than fit the facts around them - or the imagination to give the suckers on all sides an even break.
- Friday was a perfect example of the pell-mell rush of these days.
- Thus, for decades, corporations and individuals have bored deep into fossil water, which is not replenishable - a pell-mell water mining that has left what remains as brackish as the sea.
- We are not going to do a pell-mell rush into the city.
- An article providing for a one-year grace period was not debated in the pell-mell final day of the legislative session.
- To fans in the stands or on television, the two racecars appear to be in a flat-out, pell-mell charge to the finish line.
- Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection.
- Obviously, it shouldn't be a deadline which forces us to leave rapidly, in a pell-mell fashion.
- With so much at stake, too, the tendency is always to launch into pell-mell play, all motion and little notion.
noun pɛlˈmɛlpɛlˈmɛl A disorderly situation or collection of things. the pell-mell of ascending gables and roof tiles Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes it's handy to zoom in and select specific units but it's probably easier to learn the shortcut keys and create groups of units before running pell-mell into the opposition.
- A dozen horseman galloped pell-mell to within a few yards of where I was sitting, simultaneously checking their horses, turning their horses on a sixpence, in order to deliver a volley of rifle fire.
- When we first see him he is running pell-mell through the streets of Edinburgh before he is cornered.
- We have never known the euphoria of riding across country on a crisp winter's morning, summoned the bravery to fly pell-mell over hedges and ditches or experienced the extraordinary exhilaration of feeling at one with a horse.
- It may be a pell-mell of words but feelings should make a piece worth reading.
- They drew together, uttering frightened exclamations; and the lights flashed as the others came pouring out of the cemetery pell-mell, like men possessed.
- But it surprised us all nevertheless, and there was a mad rush as humans, Elves, Gnomes, and what have you scampered pell-mell to their cabins.
- A red rope separates about 30 of us from the groaning, pressing mass of humanity that's about to charge pell-mell into the freezing San Francisco Bay.
- Yet stealthily he has displayed a tactical nous in Europe even if the pell-mell of the Premiership, especially away from home, remains a mystery to his enigmatic and infuriating charges.
- Originally it was published with drawings and a surrealistic text to be read pell-mell over sometimes very loud music, not performed on the disc.
- A government, driven pell-mell by a media agenda, shooting first and asking questions later.
- They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
- But these last two points are faults of the plays, not the production, which at its best is a breathlessly pell-mell, swaggeringly epic dose of theatre.
- The forwards spent most of the match running pell-mell into each other and then cheating like crazy at the breakdown.
- An entire generation of backs are growing up thinking that rugby is about nothing more than running pell-mell into bodies when, if the laws were properly upheld, they would have the luxury of space that comes with quick ball.
- We are hunting venison, not hurtling pell-mell to our deaths!
- The rest of us are riding pell-mell in the other direction.
- Everything's gone pell-mell!
- Turning back toward the door and shouting thanks over my shoulder, I ran pell-mell onto the busy city sidewalk.
- The clowns are delivering their aid in the most personal way, with not just a joke and a smile, but hugs and tears and the pell-mell of circus-like performances.
Synonyms bedlam, mayhem, chaos, pandemonium, babel, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, disorder, hurly-burly
Origin Late 16th century: from French pêle-mêle, from earlier pesle mesle, mesle pesle, reduplication from mesler 'to mix'. People like words that combine two almost identical forms, like helter-skelter (late 16th century), mishmash (Late Middle English), namby-pamby, and wishy-washy (late 17th century)—and pell-mell. Its second element represents a form of French mesler ‘to mix’ (related to medley). The first part might be from pelle ‘shovel’, giving the sense ‘mixed together with a shovel’, but the simple love of rhyme may be the only explanation needed.
Rhymes Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell Definition of pell-mell in US English: pell-melladverbpelˈmelpɛlˈmɛl In a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner. the contents of the sacks were thrown pell-mell to the ground Example sentencesExamples - Bernard embarked on pell-mell international expansion, building strong operations across the rest of Europe, Asia and Latin America.
- Even groups that we have admired are now in pell-mell cowardly retreat.
- She ran down the stairs, chasing the rat with a marble pell-mell.
- His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road.
- Behind the marked turnaround: pell-mell economic growth, an ultra-easy monetary policy, and a bank lending boom.
Synonyms helter-skelter, headlong, full tilt, at full tilt, hotfoot, post-haste, hurriedly, hastily in disorder, in confusion, in a jumble, in a muddle, in disarray, in a disorganized manner, untidily, in a mess, in a heap, anyhow
adjectivepelˈmelpɛlˈmɛl Recklessly hasty or disorganized; headlong. steering the pell-mell development of Europe onto a new and more gradual course Example sentencesExamples - An article providing for a one-year grace period was not debated in the pell-mell final day of the legislative session.
- Obviously, it shouldn't be a deadline which forces us to leave rapidly, in a pell-mell fashion.
- What's been largely missing, though, through these pell-mell days, has been the time to rethink pat agendas rather than fit the facts around them - or the imagination to give the suckers on all sides an even break.
- Friday was a perfect example of the pell-mell rush of these days.
- With so much at stake, too, the tendency is always to launch into pell-mell play, all motion and little notion.
- Thus, for decades, corporations and individuals have bored deep into fossil water, which is not replenishable - a pell-mell water mining that has left what remains as brackish as the sea.
- To fans in the stands or on television, the two racecars appear to be in a flat-out, pell-mell charge to the finish line.
- We are not going to do a pell-mell rush into the city.
- Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection.
- U.S. companies continue a pell-mell rush into offshore outsourcing of software development.
nounpelˈmelpɛlˈmɛl A state of affairs or collection of things characterized by haste or confusion. the pell-mell of ascending gables and roof tiles Example sentencesExamples - Everything's gone pell-mell!
- Sometimes it's handy to zoom in and select specific units but it's probably easier to learn the shortcut keys and create groups of units before running pell-mell into the opposition.
- A dozen horseman galloped pell-mell to within a few yards of where I was sitting, simultaneously checking their horses, turning their horses on a sixpence, in order to deliver a volley of rifle fire.
- We are hunting venison, not hurtling pell-mell to our deaths!
- But it surprised us all nevertheless, and there was a mad rush as humans, Elves, Gnomes, and what have you scampered pell-mell to their cabins.
- The forwards spent most of the match running pell-mell into each other and then cheating like crazy at the breakdown.
- They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
- Originally it was published with drawings and a surrealistic text to be read pell-mell over sometimes very loud music, not performed on the disc.
- Turning back toward the door and shouting thanks over my shoulder, I ran pell-mell onto the busy city sidewalk.
- Yet stealthily he has displayed a tactical nous in Europe even if the pell-mell of the Premiership, especially away from home, remains a mystery to his enigmatic and infuriating charges.
- They drew together, uttering frightened exclamations; and the lights flashed as the others came pouring out of the cemetery pell-mell, like men possessed.
- An entire generation of backs are growing up thinking that rugby is about nothing more than running pell-mell into bodies when, if the laws were properly upheld, they would have the luxury of space that comes with quick ball.
- When we first see him he is running pell-mell through the streets of Edinburgh before he is cornered.
- We have never known the euphoria of riding across country on a crisp winter's morning, summoned the bravery to fly pell-mell over hedges and ditches or experienced the extraordinary exhilaration of feeling at one with a horse.
- The clowns are delivering their aid in the most personal way, with not just a joke and a smile, but hugs and tears and the pell-mell of circus-like performances.
- The rest of us are riding pell-mell in the other direction.
- It may be a pell-mell of words but feelings should make a piece worth reading.
- A red rope separates about 30 of us from the groaning, pressing mass of humanity that's about to charge pell-mell into the freezing San Francisco Bay.
- But these last two points are faults of the plays, not the production, which at its best is a breathlessly pell-mell, swaggeringly epic dose of theatre.
- A government, driven pell-mell by a media agenda, shooting first and asking questions later.
Synonyms bedlam, mayhem, chaos, pandemonium, babel, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, disorder, hurly-burly
Origin Late 16th century: from French pêle-mêle, from earlier pesle mesle, mesle pesle, reduplication from mesler ‘to mix’. |