Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus

Roget'sisprobablyaspopularanameforlendingauthoritytothesaurusesasWebster'sisfordictionaries.Althoughthisnewversionisnotthedirectdescendantoftheoriginal,itfollowsthenow-populardictionaryformatforits17,000mainentries(abandon-zoom)andprovidesotherinnovationsaswell.Thepartofspeech,verybriefdefinition,synonyms(over450,000),andreferencestoan837-termConceptIndexareindicatedforeachentry.WordsintheConceptIndexarearrangedundercategories,e.g.,actions,causes,andobjects,andassistingeneratingalternativewordchoicesthroughmeaningtowordsearches.Antonymsarenotincluded,butsynonymsrepresentingnonstandardusagearenoted.Thelexicographer-author'sselectionsreflectcontemporaryusage,gendersensitivity,andrecentlyevolvedwords.Thiscurrentanduncomplicatedthesaurusishighlyrecommendedforalllibraries.-StanleyP.Hodge,BallStateUniv.Lib.,Muncie,Ind.Copyright1992ReedBusinessInformation,Inc.--Thistextreferstoanoutofprintorunavailableeditionofthistitle."Exceptional...uniquewordsandgroupings...Thisresourceisagem!"--Booklist."Exceptional...uniquewordsandgroupings...Thisresourceisagem!"--Booklist.--Thistextreferstoanoutofprintorunavailableeditionofthistitle.