ado
Plural: ados
Noun
- A state of bother or fuss about something trivial.
- a rapid active commotion
- trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion
Examples
- There was much ado about his controversial play of ’GEEZER’.
Origin / Etymology
From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.
Synonyms
bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir, ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bust-up, chaos, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pother, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stooshie, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir
Scrabble Score: 4
ado: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordado: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ado: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary