rigmarolic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

rigmarole +‎ -ic

Adjective[edit]

rigmarolic (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of rigmarole.
    • 1836, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia:
      "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 […]
    • 1977, Diwan Kirpa Ram, Gulabnama of Diwan Kirpa Ram:
      An essentially floral diction pregnates every sentence and every phrase, and the theme has been conveyed in a rigmarolic manner.
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