An ingenious word-finder that helps you locate the precise word you want when you know generally what you mean but can't recall the exact term. You look up the meaning to find the word. Contains over 400,000 words in more than 70,000 main entries.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Find the word on the tip of your tongue.,
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This review is from: Illustrated Reverse Dictionary (Paperback)
Like a box full of chocolates with a surprise in every wrapper, this book is filled with delights.The Reverse Dictionary is one of my favorite books, the place where I can always find the right word. Not only are words defined as they are in a standard dictionary, but this dictionary provides alternatives with their meanings as it relates to the selected word: This is an example from the book: deceive -- See also cheat - deceive, pretending to be something or someone that is not -- masquerade, dissemble - deceive or flatter with smooth charming talk-- blarney - easily deceived, fooled, or duped -- credulous, gullible The next entries in the Reverse Dictionary are for deception, then deceptive which give you additional routs to finding perfection. In addition to the thesaurus quality of the book, there are charts, maps, and pictures. By using the quick table for German terms I discover that the meaning of Junker is "a former Prussian aristocrat." Also if you have wondered what the mathematical symbols or therapy (rolfing) terms mean the answer is in this book. One of the most interesting charts is a tree diagram of the Indo-European Languages. Providing multiple variations of the same word and additional thesaurus options makes this book an excellent choice. When coupled with the many graphics and tables it is easy to see that this tool is for students, writers, teachers, lecturers, and everyone else. This is such an interesting book that it is difficult to classify it as a reference tool.. It is, without doubt, worth five stars.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Wonderful Book to Own...but, by fermed,
By Fernando Melendez "fermed" (San Diego, California USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Illustrated Reverse Dictionary (Paperback)
I love to pick up this "reverse dictionary" and just browse it, something that I do frequently since it sits within reach, at my desk. It is without any doubt a rich and fabulous source of general knowledge, of trivia and of words. If you are at a temporaty loss about whether it is the "stamen" or the "stigma" of a flower, you might resolve your confusion with this book. I say you "might" advisedly, because the book is infuriating in its lack of correspondence between its list of words and those found in many of the lush and wonderful illustrations it contains. If you look up stigma, you will find no entry by that name; if you try "stamen" you will find only "stamens" with a cryptic "of a flower ANDROECIUM." Of course, there is no entry for "androecium." But if you persist and have the instinct of a dowser you will, sooner or later, come across a picture of a flower, in full color, with all of its parts neatly labeled, including the stamen and the stigma. This is a tricky book, capable of giving you fits. It rates only three stars because its riches are very difficult to get to, so that it is an impractical book from which to extract specific information when you need it. I recently tried to remember "alb," and I approached it by looking at vestment, priest, miter, even Pope, but I could find nothing until (by chance) I found a picture of "Papal Vestments." In these days of computer ease there is no reason why the book should not contain a list including every single word that appears in the book and the page on which it is found. It is disgraceful that this one does not. But...did I tell you that I love this book?
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is helpful to find "le mot juste".,
By A Customer
This review is from: Illustrated Reverse Dictionary (Paperback)
Many times I know what I want to express, except I don't know how to exactly articulate my meaning.. This book gives me the resources to fully verbalize my ideas, using the approprate vocabulary and word nuances.
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