Ado
[ə'duː] or [ə'du]
Definition
(n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
(n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
Typist: Sean
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Trouble, difficulty, labor, pains.[2]. Bustle, stir, flurry, fuss, noise, tumult, turmoil, pother, confusion, commotion, TO-DO.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hubbub, commotion, fuse, excitement
ANT:Calm, composure, quiet, orderliness, staidness, tranquillity
Inputed by Lewis
Definition
n. a to do: bustle: trouble: difficulty: stir or fuss.
Editor: Nancy
Examples
- Without more ado, therefore, I turned to meet the charge of the infuriated bull ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Con-signed in a safe quarter,' replied George, wringing the heads off half a dozen shrimps, and swallowing them without any more ado. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He'll be after the men's cans in the hay-field, and peeping in; and then there'll be an ado because it's not ginger beer, but I can't help it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I know weel that yo aw resolve to ha nommore ado wi' a man who is not wi' yo in this matther. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I did hear a young lass make an ado about knowing where we lived, and coming to see us. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And without more ado, said Thrasymachus, you may consider us all to be equally agreed. Plato. The Republic.
- It's a mere rehearsal of Much Ado about Nothing. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As Arthur Clennam moved to sit down by the side of Little Dorrit, she trembled so that she had much ado to hold her needle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mrs. Bardell screamed violently; Tommy roared; Mrs. Cluppins shrunk within herself; and Mrs. Sanders made off, without more ado. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After much ado, he opens them, but without appearing to see his visitors or any other objects. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Without more ado I swung the door wide open and, followed by the huge Thark, stepped into the chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Graunt was a shop-keeper of London, and Charles said that if they found any more such tradesmen, they should be su re to admit them all without more ado. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I'se have to begin and try now, if yo' start making an ado about what little Mary could sarve yo'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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