| Main Entry: | rigmarole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
babble, balderdash, baloney, blather, bull, bunk, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hot air, jargon, jive, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, trash* |
| Main Entry: | double-talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense communicated |
Synonyms: |
amphibiology, balderdash, baloney, bull*, drivel, equivocation, flimflam, gibberish, jazz, mumbo jumbo, rigmarole |
Antonyms: |
sense, straight talk |
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
Synonyms: |
amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bull*, bunk, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey, macaronics, rigmarole, rubbish* |
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, conjuring, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam, fraud, gibberish, gobbledegook, hoax, hocus, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, magic words, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo, mummery, mystification, nonsense, occultism, open sesame, rigmarole, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary |
Antonyms: |
standard |
| Main Entry: | performance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acting, depiction |
Synonyms: |
act, appearance, ballet, behavior, burlesque, business, ceremony, concert, custom, dance, display, drama, exhibition, gig, interpretation, matinee, offering, opera, pageant, play, portrayal, presentation, production, recital, rehearsal, representation, review, revue, rigmarole, rite, set, show, special, spectacle, stage show, stunt, to-do |
Antonyms: |
direction |
| Main Entry: | tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
Synonyms: |
canard, chestnut, clothesline, cock-and-bull story, defamation, detraction, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, rigmarole, rumor, scandal, slander, spiel*, tall story, untruism, untruth, yarn |
Antonyms: |
non-fiction |
| Main Entry: | balderdash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, drivel, flummery, fudge, fustian, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, rigmarole, rot, trash, tripe, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | crap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
baloney, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, foolishness, hogwash, idiocy, ludicrousness, poppycock, ridiculousness, rigmarole, tomfoolery, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | tommyrot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, piffle, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rigmarole, rot, rubbish*, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, trash*, tripe, twaddle |