rigmarole

1. 1.

   a set of confused and meaningless statements

   Synonymsrigamarole

   Broadernonsense
2. 2.

   a long and complicated and confusing procedure

   “all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time”

   Synonymsrigamarole

   Broaderprocedure

Other forms of rigmarole

plural

rigmaroles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rigmarole

What does rigmarole mean?

rigmarole means "a set of confused and meaningless statements". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rigmarole?

rigmarole has 4 syllables: rig-ma-ro-le. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for rigmarole?

Close synonyms include rigamarole, rigamarole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rigmarole a common word?

rigmarole is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.