Provides a comprehensive handbook to the meanings and synonyms of a treasury of words in current use.
Under the time-tested banner of Roget's Thesaurus, this collection will quickly become the most essential tool on your desk when you're working on your next piece.
The New Roget's Thesaurus In Dictionary Form (revised Edition)
"Contains material adapted from The big book of words you should know"--T.p. verso.
This all-new edition of the classic reference work is the one thesaurus no home or office should be without.
This thesaurus is the essential desk companion for anyone who wants to improve their command, creative use and enjoyment of the English language.
An updated edition of Roget's word-finder reorganizes it according to new, more modern subject categories, features 350,000 entries, and contains hundreds of example quotations from throughout history
The first author to point out this importance was Schafer (1989). His ground-breaking research has by now been generally acknowledged. See e.g. Nevalainen (1999).
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.
The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Peter Mark Roget‘s first edition in 1852 was the development of a brand–new principle: the arrangement of words and phrases according to their meanings.