rigamarole

Noun

Meaning

a long and complicated and confusing procedure

a set of confused and meaningless statements

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Synonyms

rigmarole gimp humbug hot procedure nonsense trash absurdity rubbish bother gibberish claptrap palaver baloney drivel

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Antonyms

fact knowledge sense experience prudence understanding

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Hypernyms

process procedure nonsense bunk hokum meaninglessness

Examples

all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time Source: Internet

Because of the rigamarole of all wacky pole regulation and how all the other ISPs would drag their feet as much as possible to slow Google down. Source: Internet

If you fail a mission in the single-player Adventure Mode, you can immediately retry it without having to do that whole “return to the world map” rigamarole. Source: Internet

It's an annual tradition: collects a mixed-bag gaggle of young rappers, all of whom think they're already too big for this rigamarole. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

riga fir rigadoon rigamajig Rigan rigarion rigation