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Merriam Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus (Hardcover)
by Merriam-Webster
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Author: Merriam-Webster
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
Pub. in: January, 1994
ISBN: 0877791694
Pages: 894
Measurements: 10 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00762
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0877791690
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Most other dictionary-format thesauri (Roget's II, for instance) simply won't give you what you want on the first try. If, for instance, you want a more decorous word for "smelly", you're brusquely told to "see MALODOROUS". This means that most of the words you are likely to be looking up require a time-wasting two step process: first find the word you want to replace, then find the main entry for that concept. By the time you've finished flipping back and forth through the pages you've forgotten what it is your looking for.
The Webster's version is a thousand times more convenient. If you look up a specific word, you're guaranteed to find about a dozen or so of the most common synonyms right there (funky, stinky, rank, etc.). This first entry is probably all you'll need, and it constitutes the main time-saving benefit of this edition. But there's more. The real verbomaniacs among us get referred to the main entry of the concept. Here you'll find the mother lode of words, often numbering into the dozens and ranging from the most commonplace to the ridiculously obscure (e.g. mephitic, olid, stenchful). You'll also find related terms (vile, rotten, pestilential), contrasting terms (fresh, clean, deoderized), and antonyms (fragrent, sweet) all in the same place, just as you would in Roget's conceptually arranged International edition. Like I said, most writers are sure to find what they need on the first try.
The only other thesaurus that approaches this one is the Random House Collegiate, but I don't think that one has definitions; this one does. I'm also pretty sure this one has more words than Random House, Roget's 21st Century, or any other. It's also inexpensive for a hardcover, so how can you lose? (From quoting Brian, USA)
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General readers
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Since 1937. Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition – America's best-selling desk dictionary – and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster can be considered the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster. In 1843, the company bought the rights to the 1841 edition of Webster's magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged. At the same time, they secured the rights to create revised editions of the work. Since that time, Merriam-Webster editors have carried forward Noah Webster's work, creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world.
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Find the right word to enrich communication. Alphabetical lists include more than 340,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms. Brief definitions describe the meanings shared by synonyms.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-31 00:00>
Dude I am totally feeling this thegasaurus. Not to get all neolithic on you guys or anything, but this thegasaurus really rocks, extinct or not extinct! Really though, if this thegasaurus was water, man would I drink it! If it was a chick, I'd be all like, "hey, how's it going?" If it was a show that ran in real time starring keiffer sutherland, I would so tape it and watch it when i got home. that's what the gasauruses are all about man. Taping and taping means saving. Please save the the gasauruses! Let's not let them die out again! Honestly, if the cavemen from the past were more like the geico cavemen in those commercials, they would have totally rocked and spearheaded a campaign to save the thegasauruses! Come on people! Be caveman! Order the roast duck with mango salsa!
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