Synonyms of folderol

folderol

noun

ˈfäl-də-ˌräl 

variants also falderal

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

wanted a dignified, simple wedding and not the folderol that the wedding planner was trying to foist on them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• nuts
• garbage
• silliness
• blah
• rubbish
• stupidity
• jazz
• drool
• balderdash
• flapdoodle
• claptrap
• bunk
• craziness
• twaddle
• muck
• blather
• baloney
• malarkey
• blatherskite
• piffle
• absurdity
• hokum
• blither
• bunkum
• guff
• trumpery
• beans
• crock
• foolishness
• humbuggery
• hogwash
• bilge
• poppycock
• tosh
• trash
• hooey
• insanity
• tommyrot
• fudge
• drivel
• codswallop
• blarney
• crapola
• fiddle
• absurdness
• rot
• fiddle-faddle
• punk
• madness
• horsefeathers
• bull
• fiddlesticks
• taradiddle
• humbug
• hokeypokey
• folly
• applesauce
• bosh
• hoodoo
• moonshine
• flannel
• nerts
• senselessness
• idiocy
• slush
• inanity
• foolery
• kookiness
• rigmarole
• tomfoolery
• asininity
• fatuity
• lunacy
• gas
• hocus-pocus
• greek
• imbecility
• witlessness
• monkey business
• inaneness
• hoity-toity
• double-talk
• monkeyshine(s)
• hot air
• shenanigan(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• sensibleness
• common sense
• judgment
• horse sense
• levelheadedness
• wisdom
• reasonability
• discernment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of folderol

Given the public’s fixation on Saturday Night Live in 2025, the show’s 50th year—marked by all manner of celebratory folderol, including a big anniversary show and a series of SNL50 mini-docs—most of us have been SNL’ed into exhaustion. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Apr. 2026

King’s Chapel was established in 1683 as the first Anglican church in New England, which was settled starting in 1620 by dissenters who wanted a theocracy and religion shorn of folderol, cant, and the stink of popes and kings. — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 July 2025

Yet Bennett and pianist Ralph Sharon strip away any and all rococo folderol to get to the meat of rejection with their spare, cutting (yet still happily hammy) rendition. — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 July 2023

But beneath the back-and-forth, the folderol exposes a larger weakness of his position. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 May 2023

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