Search Result for "rigmarole":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a set of confused and meaningless statements;
[syn: rigmarole, rigamarole]
2. a long and complicated and confusing procedure;
- Example: "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"
[syn: rigmarole, rigamarole]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rigmarole \Rig"ma*role\, a. Consisting of rigmarole; frivolous; nonsensical; foolish. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rigmarole \Rig"ma*role\, n. [For ragman roll. See Ragman's roll.] A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "rigmarole": absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling
