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Antonyms for rigmarole

Grammar : Noun
Spell : rig-muh-rohl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɪg məˌroʊl

Definition of rigmarole

Origin :
  • 1736, "a long, rambling discourse," apparently from an altered, Kentish colloquial survival of ragman roll "long list or catalogue" (1520s), in Middle English a long roll of verses descriptive of personal characters, used in a medieval game of chance called Rageman, perhaps from Anglo-French Ragemon le bon "Ragemon the good," which was the heading on one set of the verses, referring to a character by that name. Sense transferred to "foolish activity or commotion" by 1939.
  • noun nonsense
Example sentences :
  • I was sitting with my finger in the hot water listening to this rigmarole.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • What made that other child tell all that rigmarole about fairies?
  • Extract from : « A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia » by Alice Turner Curtis
  • Daddy Tantaine began to grow impatient with all this rigmarole.
  • Extract from : « Caught In The Net » by Emile Gaboriau
  • But I've got to tell you all this rigmarole first, so you'll understand what's comin'.
  • Extract from : « Aunt Jane of Kentucky » by Eliza Calvert Hall
  • "All this rigmarole comes of the theatre," said Sister Agatha grimly.
  • Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller
  • He was great in dreams, portents, et id genus omne of rigmarole.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Now you can tell me the true inward meaning of all this rigmarole.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Babylon Hotel » by Arnold Bennett
  • He's got a rigmarole somethin' about his bein' a Jew pedler that he tells ev'rybody.
  • Extract from : « Sixes and Sevens » by O. Henry
  • Of course, that rigmarole about the cardinal is all nonsense.
  • Extract from : « Castellinaria » by Henry Festing Jones
  • The Sirdar himself is included in his rigmarole of accusations.
  • Extract from : « Khartoum Campaign, 1898 » by Bennet Burleigh

Synonyms for rigmarole

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