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rigmarolic

rigmarolic adjective: characteristic of rigmarole.

Adjective

rigmarolic (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of rigmarole.
    • "What is Poetry?" notwithstanding Leigh Hunt's rigmarolic attempt at answering it, is a query that, with great care and deliberate agreement beforehand on the exact value of certain leading words, may, possibly, be settled to the partial satisfaction of a few […]1836, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    • An essentially floral diction pregnates every sentence and every phrase, and the theme has been conveyed in a rigmarolic manner.1977, Diwan Kirpa Ram, Gulabnama of Diwan Kirpa Ram

Origin of rigmarolic

From rigmarole + -ic.

Questions about rigmarolic

What does rigmarolic mean?
Rigmarolic means characteristic of rigmarole.
What part of speech is rigmarolic?
Rigmarolic is an adjective.

Words near rigmarolic in the dictionary

  1. riglings
  2. riglins
  3. rigmarole
  4. rigmarolery
  5. rigmaroles
  6. rigmarolic
  7. rigmarolish
  8. Rignall
  9. Rigney
  10. Rigneys
  11. rigol

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