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#TRYING TO THINK OF ANOTHER WORD FOR THESAURUS ARCHIVE#

Lists of synonyms are useful when we are struggling to write and looking for just the right word, but each word must be considered in light of its specific definition. The verbs make and construct mean roughly the same thing, but one is more likely to make a cake but construct a building, which is a more complex undertaking. Students may be able to remember this by thinking that synonym and. A sunset might be described equally well as beautiful or resplendent, but a beautiful baby would not usually be described as resplendent, which implies an especially dazzling appearance. My try: She arrived early with the purpose/intention of getting a good seat.

#TRYING TO THINK OF ANOTHER WORD FOR THESAURUS ARCHIVE#

Follow on Tumblr Ask me anything About Archive Mobile RSS Tumblr What’s another word for Thesaurus Steven Wright (1955 - ) (via dreamingofbliss) Source: dreamingofbliss. And when we move from nouns to other parts of speech, we almost always find subtle but important differences among synonyms: although the meanings overlap, they differ in emphasis and connotation. What’s another word for Thesaurus trying to make sense of it all. But forest and wood, though often interchangeable, have different shades of meaning: a forest tends to be larger and denser than a wood. And if you ask for a soda on the east coast of the U.S., you’ll get the same drink that asking for a pop will get you farther west. Just about every popular dictionary defines synonym as a term having “the same or nearly the same” meaning as another, but there is an important difference between “the same” and “nearly the same.” Noun synonyms sometimes mean exactly the same thing. English, with its long history of absorbing terminology from a wealth of other tongues, is a language particularly rich in synonyms -words so close in meaning that in many contexts they are interchangeable, like the nouns tongue and language in the first part of this sentence.

Trying to think of another word for thesaurus