Roget International Thesaurus Index 5E

by Peter Mark Roget, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Roget, et al.

Book Overview

A newly revised and updated 8th edition of the world's bestselling thesaurus, featuring thousands of new words and phrases, including the newest slang words and expressions that color and inform... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062700146
• ISBN13: 9780062700148
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Length: 1168 Pages
• Weight: 4.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 2.1" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Very useful, it is like the Bible of words.

I am a copywriter and I find this thesaurus very useful. It has a different approach to wording. The only thing is that rarely you might not be finding a word you are looking for, yet, it is creative and it works well. I would recommend this thesaurus to every writer or student preparing their projects or writing their essays.

Another one for the library.

This is another book to add to your personal library if you are the type of person who has ever had to find that special word that says it all.

Roget's International -- the crossword addict's best friend

First off I think Roget's Thesaurus is the best book ever written. I use various versions constantly.Roget's International Thesaurus, with its index in the back for locating words, is for me as a crossword addict and professional writer the most helpful thesaurus.The other versions have alphabetized entries like a dictionary and give you far fewer words from which to choose.My old edition is so worn out the cover has fallen off. My only criticism is that I wish it would be printed in hardback.

A truly fabulous book.

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.