A reference book that belongs on every desk--one of the handiest, best-organized, and most reliable thesauruses available, newly updated to reflect the American language of today.
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A reference book that belongs on every desk -- one of the handiest, best-organized, and most reliable thesauruses available, newly updated to reflect the American language of today.
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A reference book that belongs on every desk--one of the handiest, best-organized, and most reliable thesauruses available, newly updated to reflect the American language of today.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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A necessity for an interesting and appropriate vocabulary,
By Fred "mrdata22" (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Doubleday Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (Hardcover)
I have used Doubleday Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form for 30 plus years. I started using it in college because it was easy to look up words in the dictionary format. I continued using it in my career as a writer. I cannot imagine writing letters, speeches, etc. without it. Now that I have retired, my wife uses my old Roget's Thesaurus for her crossword puzzles and loves it. Between the two of us, we wore it out. This new edition is as good as the previous one. If you think you will write something, I highly recommend it. If you think you will use it a lot (as I did), you might want to get the hardcover version. As I mentioned, my old hardcover Thesaurus lasted over 30 years.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Thesaurus Currently Available for the Kindle,
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This review is from: The Doubleday Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (Kindle Edition)
This is the best thesaurus currently available for the Kindle, in my opinion.
When you type in a word and press the centre of the five-way (you don't even have to click on 'find'), you are given a selection of references, by location, where the word appears. You can click on the header for each location to see if it is one that you want to use (if you cannot tell right away, from the amount of context provided); if it doesn't fill your needs, press 'back' and go to the next location. The only seemingly awkward part of this is that once you've done one search, you have to do the next one from where you were last; just feels counterintuitive, although it works very well. Best choice for the Kindle, for sure! Edited to add: Do give your Kindle time to index the thesaurus before you try to use it; it may take a while!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Hard to use on Kindle,
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It is a good thesaurus if this was in print form. However, there are no navigations like the built in dictionary in Kindle. I've tried to search for a word by typing it, but there is no search bar to type for your exact word. I also tried the "Go to..." function if there is at least a Table of Contents that split up each alphabet, but none like that. The closest thing for a word search would be the "Search This Book" option, but that will have multiple location results because the word "discover" is in Location 122, 567, 890, 2546, 7890, and does not locate the exact word.
Is there a Thesaurus that is built like the one we have for Kindle where there is a word search bar?
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