PANDEMONIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pandemonium mean? 

• PANDEMONIUM (noun)
  The noun PANDEMONIUM has 1 sense:

1. a state of extreme confusion and disorder

  Familiarity information: PANDEMONIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANDEMONIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme confusion and disorder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bedlam; chaos; pandemonium; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness

Hypernyms ("pandemonium" is a kind of...):

confusion (disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pandemonium"):

balagan (a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian))

 Context examples 

Then it descended, pandemonium broke loose, everything happened at once.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An oath from Perrault, the resounding impact of a club upon a bony frame, and a shrill yelp of pain, heralded the breaking forth of pandemonium.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)