rigmarolic

English

Etymology

From rigmarole +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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.