The Concise Roget's International Thesaurus (5th Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Robert L. Chapman (Editor)

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Product Description
-- Ideal for home, school, and office -- Portable, compact, authoritative -- Learn to speak and write more effectively -- Enlarge your vocabulary -- Use the word with your precise shade of meaning Only in THE CONCISE ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS "RM" will you find 43 ways to say overjoyed and 39 ways to say dejected, 32 ways to be astonished, 59 ways to laugh and 23 ways to weep -- and even 58 words to describe the color yellow.

About the Author
Dr. Robert L. Chapman was the revising editor for the fourth edition of Roget's International Thesaurus®, the supervising editor of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary and author of The New Dictionary of American Slang. Dr. Chapman recently retired as Professor of English at Drew University.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: HarperResource; 5th Rev edition (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061007099
• ISBN-13: 978-0061007095
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,081,085 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roget's International -- the crossword addict's best friend, April 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Concise Rogets International Thesaurus (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful, it is like the Bible of words., November 3, 2006

By	Can Dincer "Merdol Can Dincer" (TR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Roget's Thesaurus, 6th Edition (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Less than expected but still far better than the rest, March 27, 2009

By	Marne Lierman "silver sennyo" (Orem, UT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Roget's Thesaurus, 6th Edition (Mass Market Paperback)

After loosing my older edition of a Roget's Thesaurus that I acquired several years ago, I was thrilled to get my hands on the newest release. I love the set up, and that there are so many more words than other thesauruses, but am quite disappointed with the index.

In the earlier edition I owed, almost half of the book was made up of the index, I am pretty sure nearly every word in the thesaurus was listed in the there. And although it was a lot to get through to find a single word, it was useful for other things, such as a finding the spelling of a word, or perusing through a section when I couldn't think of exactly what word was coming to mind.

The index in this edition is pathetic by comparison. It takes up less than five percent of the size of the book. Automatically, that tells me that only about five percent of the words in the book are indexed, which is a terrible waste. Why even have an index at that point?

I do not intend do stop using this thesaurus just because I can no longer trust the index to be a great source of help. I'm sure I'll eventually learn how to locate words using the Synopsis of Categories at the beginning of the book. But I will greatly miss the extensive index of my previous edition.