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rigamarole
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rigamarole has 2 senses
- rigamarole(n = noun.communication) rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements; Array is a kind of bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
- rigamarole(n = noun.act) rigmarole - a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time" is a kind of procedure, process
THESAURUS
rigamarole
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, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling
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