much ado about nothing

noun

Roget 549: exaggeration; expansion etc. 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura^†; extravagance etc. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang].    storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482; puff, puffery etc. (boasting) 884; rant etc. (turgescence) 577^†.    figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy etc. (imagination) 515.    false coloring etc. (falsehood) 544; aggravation etc. 835.    ... show more

Roget 643: unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.    triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness etc. adj.; poverty; smallness etc. 32; vanity etc. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference etc. 866; no object.    nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter etc. adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel.    toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air;" yankee notions [U.S.].    trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras^†, frippery; leather or prunello;" chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse etc. (inutility) 645; scum etc. (dirt) 653.    joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge etc. (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick^†, fiddlestick end^†; pack of nonsense, mere farce.    straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit^†, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen^†, red cent [U.S.].    minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.    nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan etc. (impotence) 158; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482.    ... show more

Roget 482: overestimation etc. v.; exaggeration etc. 549; vanity etc. 880; optimism, pessimism, pessimist.    much cry and little wool, much ado about nothing; storm in a teacup, tempest in a teacup; fine talking.    ... show more

Roget 699: unskillfulness etc. adj.; want of skill etc. 698; incompetence, incompentency^†; inability, infelicity, indexterity^†, inexperience; disqualification, unproficiency^†; quackery.    folly, stupidity etc. 499; indiscretion etc. (rashness) 863; thoughtlessness etc. (inattention) 458 (neglect) 460; sabotage.    mismanagement, misconduct; impolicy^†; maladministration; misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance; petticoat government.    absence of rule, rule of thumb; bungling etc. v.; failure etc. 732; screw loose: too many cooks.    blunder etc. (mistake) 495; etourderie gaucherie [Fr.], act of folly, balourdise^†; botch, botchery^†; bad job, sad work.    sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild-goose chase.    bungler etc. 701; fool etc. 501.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: big deal, emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, idleness, inanity, levity, lightness, nugacity, overreaction, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, superficiality, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity ... show more.

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