Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A long and complicated formal procedure.

    Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?

    Theater, Zirkus, Brimborium

    каните́льkanitélʹ, волоки́таvolokíta

    a long and complicated and confusing procedure

  2. (countable, dated, uncountable)Confused and incoherent talk; nonsense.

    If you are alluding to Dostoevski’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Karamazov Brothers and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigmarole.

    Geschwätz, Palaver

    вздорvzdor, брехня́brexnjá

Examples

1 sentences

  1. What a rigmarole!

    deWas für ein Zirkus!

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
long, tedious and complicated formal procedure:
nonsense talk:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
long, tedious and complicated formal procedure:
nonsense talk:

Origin

From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”). Recorded since c1736.

From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”). Recorded since c1736.

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Forms

plural: rigmaroles

Synonyms

136 synonyms
babbleC2bullB1dribbleC2garbageA1gossipB1humbugB2jargonC2junkA2nonsenseB1rubbishB1stuffA2trashB1carry-oncircus act
Close in meaning
  • a long and complicated and confusing procedure:rigamarole
  • a set of confused and meaningless statements:rigamarole

Word family

3 related words
Derivedrigmaroleryrigmarolicrigmarolish

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rightfullyrightlyB2rigidrigorousrigorouslyrigourrile
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