adjective
- Lacking a visible order or organization.
- synonyms: chaotic
- With undue hurry and confusion.
- usage: "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"
- synonyms: pell-mell
adverb
- Haphazardly.
- usage: "the books were piled up helter-skelter"
- synonyms: every which way
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