What is the difference between confused and rigmarole?
confused | rigmarole |
(confuse)
(lb) unable to think clearly or understand
(lb) disoriented
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
making no sense; illogical
embarrassed
Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.
Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
* De Quincey
As a adjective confused
is chaotic, jumbled or muddled.As a verb confused
is (confuse).As a noun rigmarole is
complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.confused
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
(checksyns) * puzzled * perplexedrigmarole
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Alternative forms
* rigamaroleNoun
- Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
- 1895' — ''In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some '''rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush.'' — , ch XIX
- Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole .