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What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Notsteve (who is a bo selector) Started conversation Jun 18, 2001
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Xanatic Posted Jun 18, 2001
Ahh yes, the thesaurus. What a wonderful invention. Then instead of writing a plain letter to someone you pull out your thesaurus and use a lot of fancy words for the same things. And then the guy who recieves the letter has to take out his thesaurus to translate the letter back to plain language. I wish I had invented that thing, so much profit so little meaning.
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Jun 19, 2001
does synonym have one?
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Notsteve (who is a bo selector) Posted Jun 20, 2001
No.
But it does have an atonym.
Which (curiously enough) is 'atonym'.
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Mund Posted Jun 20, 2001
What a pity about pleonastic tautology!
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Mund Posted Jun 20, 2001
But checking that phrase brought out the wonderful word "circumbendibus"!
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Jun 20, 2001
(straightline) why, what does it mean?
What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
Researcher 110207 Non Sequitur Posted Jul 18, 2001
A thesaurus is a dictionary of synonyms (and often antonyms). Some thesaurus entries are not just one word, but phrases. So another "word" for "thesaurus" is "dictionary of synonyms". Roget's Thesaurus, I think, has this on the cover below the title.
I would like a hypertext thesaurus, because then I wouldn't have to keep going back and forth and losing my page when I look stuff up and find other interesting things along the way.
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What is another word for 'thesaurus'?
- 1: Notsteve (who is a bo selector) (Jun 18, 2001)
- 2: Mr. Cogito (Jun 18, 2001)
- 3: Xanatic (Jun 18, 2001)
- 4: Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly (Jun 19, 2001)
- 5: Notsteve (who is a bo selector) (Jun 20, 2001)
- 6: Mund (Jun 20, 2001)
- 7: Mund (Jun 20, 2001)
- 8: Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly (Jun 20, 2001)
- 9: Researcher 110207 Non Sequitur (Jul 18, 2001)
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