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ADO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ado mean? 

ADO (noun)
  The noun ADO has 1 sense:

1. a rapid active commotionplay

  Familiarity information: ADO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rapid active commotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ado; bustle; flurry; fuss; hustle; stir

Hypernyms ("ado" is a kind of...):

commotion; din; ruckus; ruction; rumpus; tumult (the act of making a noisy disturbance)


 Context examples 


The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The first time we had five thousand crowns out of him, though he made much ado about it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, brought in a verdict of ‘suicide.’ But I, who knew how he winced from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself that he had gone out of his way to meet it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was now too fond of you often to simulate the first whim; and, when I stretched my hand out cordially, such bloom and light and bliss rose to your young, wistful features, I had much ado often to avoid straining you then and there to my heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now,—a very little while; and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you: but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me again,—like me, I say, not love me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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