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Roget's International Thesaurus (Hardcover)

by Barbara Ann Kipfer (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 1280 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; 6th edition (13 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0062736930
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062736932
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 20.1 x 6.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 758,426 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Provides more than three hundred thousand synonyms, antonyms, and related words in more than a thousand different categories.

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars It's American!, 20 Jan 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: Roget's International Thesaurus, 6th Edition (Paperback)
A note of caution for the English speaker- this is actually an American book. A seemingly innocent quality that does in fact cause problems for the individual seeking an English language reference book.
The spelling is American, a number of words are of dubious origin to say the least- fortify=vitiminize!? There are no options for widely used truely international phrases.
I'm sure it is a fantastic book in it's place. Just beware of the repercussions. I do not wish another unsuspecting person to be lured by the promise of an 'International' listing of words.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly fabulous book., 6 Dec 1998
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This review is from: The Original Roget's International Thesaurus: Plain Edition (Hardcover)
This book will make you think about words in a way that you never have before. It is an absolute must for anyone who endeavors to communicate well in the English language.

If you can think of a word to start out with, but want to search for a better one, you can look the word up in the alphabetically arranged index. There, you will find listed several different faces of the word, some representing subtle variations in the word's meaning that you may have never considered before. Then, after thinking about what aspect of the word most closely resembles your intended meaning, you can look up the word's various implications in the main body of the book. There, you'll discover a plethora of other words of similar meaning.

You'll find the body of the book organizes all of human experience into categories..."the body and the senses", "feelings", "place", "measure and shape", etc.. If you want to describe something intangible, such as an emotion, and cannot even think of one word to begin with, you can wander through the categories of human emotion... pleasure, excitement, contentment... sadness, regret, lamentation...until you find what you are trying to describe. This process helps stimulate thought about exactly what you want to say. A merely alphabetical thesaurus could never offer anything like this.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars INDEX-STLE THESAURUS!, 7 Jan 1999
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This review is from: The Original Roget's International Thesaurus: Plain Edition (Hardcover)
This is it! The thesaurus with an index that's almost half the book -- usually the word you need is right there in the index, without having to plod through several paragraphs or even pages. This thesaurus has the whole spectrum of language, from current slang to quaint old-fashioned expressions. Those who have been frustrated by a thesaurus "in dictionary form" will find this much more complete and easier to use.
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1.0 out of 5 stars It is a pity!
I used to have an old edition of Roget's Thesaurus from the 80s (edited by Chapman) and I still have a slightly newer edition from the 90s (edited by Kirkpatrick). Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2007 by MKH

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A thesaurus is an indispensable aid for writers - sometimes the right word is just on the tip of the tongue (or, more to the case, perhaps the tip of the finger), but refuses to... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best thesaurus in its class
This is the first thesaurus I have come across in this format (see other reviews), and it certainly deserves all the praise given before. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2002 by J. Cooke

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