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adj
Characterized by rigmarole; prolix; tedious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: long-winded, palaverous, circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, rigmarole, sesquipedalian, verbose, wordy, drippy, drudgerous, irksome, longsome, monotonous, tedious, torporific, wearing, tiresome, wearisome
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A long and complicated formal procedure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: carry-on, circus act, palaver, riddle me ree
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Confused and incoherent talk; nonsense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
Synonyms: babble, blather, gibberish, migmarole, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, Gallophone, garbage, garble, gash, gibber, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse cock, horsefeathers, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trittle trattle, tush, trash, tripe, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a long and complicated and confusing procedure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rigamarole
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: procedure, process
noun
a set of confused and meaningless statements
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rigamarole
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
History
From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”). Recorded since c1736.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
