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More than 150,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms. Alphabetically organized for ease of use. Abundant usage examples. Brief definitions describe shared meanings. Sans serif font.
Customer Reviews:
Helping My Granddaughter.......2007-10-18
I purchased the Thesaurus for my Granddaughter to use in school this year.
She was very delighted to get The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus she also said it will be very helpful when writing her papers.
Not Recommended.......2006-10-14
When I got back into writing this year, I figured I needed a thesaurus more current than the old Random House College Edition Thesaurus, circa 1984, that was in my desk. And using [...] just didn't provide enough context to the words. This Webster Thesaurus was a cheap purchase which I figured would be easy to use - heck, a thesaurus is a thesaurus, right? I was wrong.
Using it for about a month now has been an endless source of frustration. Almost every word I seem to look up has a one sentence definition followed by a reference to another word, where the synonyms actually are. So I have to flip to that page. It is 667 pages long and yet it seems very few of the entries are actually useful. And when I finally get to a page with a lot of synonyms, I rarely seem to find the right word that I want, for whatever reason. Just a massive disappointment.
I'm currently deciding between The Oxford Writer's Thesaurus or Roget's College Thesaurus and when either of them arrive, I'm throwing this thesaurus into the trash. It's wasted much more time than it was worth.
Extremely Small Print.......2000-04-17
Even people with good eye sight will struggle with this...had I known that I would have got the large print version. As for the thesaurus itself.. it is pretty good. There are a few little code symbols you have to remember and you may have to bounce around the book a bit to get that "perfect" word. It is full of words though and probably a good buy for kids grades 8-12. If it would have had just a little bit larger print I would have rated it 4 stars but being able to read it is an important thing...especially if you have to work on something a little later in the evening when your eyes are slightly strained all ready.
Product Description
This new edition of a perennial best seller is comprehensive, authoritative and completely up-to-date. Clear, concise dictionary definitions and an easy-to-use thesaurus make this a complete language reference for everyones writing needs. The four-color atlas, from the mapmakers of Encyclopaedia Britannica is an invaluable aid to understanding our world today. Completely revised and updated dictionary with more than 75,000 definitions. All new thesaurus with more than 30,000 main entries 48 page four-color atlas puts the world at your fingertips Special sections include: Geographical Names; Biographical Names; Handbook of Style; Foreign Words and Phrases; Basic English Grammar; English Root Words; Irregular English Verbs; Signs and Symbols
Customer Reviews:
Multi-use dictionary!.......2007-08-23
I am a GED teacher and needed dictionaries for my students. This one is half dictionary, half thesaurus, AND has a map section in the middle. They're big but not imposing and the maps are a bonus.
Webster's New Explorer Dictionary and Thesaurus.......2007-06-02
This dictionary is OK. Some of the explanation of the word is college level. I will not recommend for younger children, it might be good for college students.
A great thesaurus and a poor dictionary........2001-11-02
Two books in one,a perfect thesaurus with synonyms antonyms,idioms and related words,but the dictionary is quite poor.There are no usage notes, number of meanings is not impressive, especially when compared to other Websters of that size.Unique feature of this Webster is a set of beautiful maps by the editors of Britannica.If you need a good thesaurus, buy it, if you are interested in a good dictionary do not.
Book Description
Find the right word to enrich communication. Alphabetical lists include more than 340,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms. Brief definitions describe the meanings shared by synonyms.
Customer Reviews:
A good investment.......2007-08-08
This thesaurus is very helpful. You will be able to find the word you're looking for about 8-9 times out of 10, which is not bad at all. I am an English major and therefore use my thesaurus quite often and I give it a thumbs up. The price is reasonable. The look is professional. It's a great buy!
Merriam -Webster Collegiate Thesaurus.......2007-07-30
This was a gift for someone that is a senior in highschool.They loved it and it will take them through adulthood.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus.......2007-05-06
I purchased this reference book at the same time I purchased Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary thinking these books would compliment each other and I was absolutely correct !!! I thought this would be a reference book that would collect dust on the bookshelf but that isn't the case. I have used this reference book more than I thought I would and it has come in handy many times now. You can never have enough reference books in your own private library and this is definitely a book that can only inhance your reference book section of your library. I am very pleased with this purchase and the only thing I regret is not purchasing this book much sooner !!!
good reference.......2007-02-20
this is a very useful especially if you need to enrich your vocabulary.
useful tool of reference but..........2005-12-20
I think the title should be changed to 'Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms'. The word thesaurus used here is unsuitable given that the Theseus of Greek myths was neither a great writer, philologist, lexographer or anything else related to dictionaries. This name is not used for such dictionaries in other western european languages. so why use it in English?
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The 1998 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary marks the 100th anniversary of this distinguished and popular reference standard, and this is more than just an interesting statistic--it means that Merriam-Webster brings years of experience and reams of citation files to the creation of this latest edition. Improving on their last dictionary, they've added more than 100 pictorial illustrations and supplemented the synonym paragraphs with examples. Along with the English dictionary, which forms the heart of the reference, the editors at Merriam-Webster have included a brief introduction to the English language and a history of the English dictionary, a guide to pronunciation, and a series of appendices that include chemical element abbreviations and symbols, foreign words and phrases, extensive sections with biographical and geographical names, signs and symbols, and a handbook of style.
But getting back to the book itself--it's impressively comprehensive for a collegiate dictionary, with more than 215,000 definitions. Each item includes a pithy wealth of information, with first usage date, etymology, and pronunciation, and clear, precise definitions. In addition, there are often usage notes, synonym cross-references, illustrative quotations, variant spellings and pronunciations, regional labels, and information on capitalization, function, and inflections. Then there are the extra touches. Under bible, for example, there's a chart detailing books of the Old Testament, Jewish Scripture, Protestant apocrypha, and books of the New Testament. Under months is a table listing the months of the principal calendars--Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic. And wonderful line drawings illustrate terms such as mackerel, lyrebird, hedgehog, and the ancient Celtic stringed instrument known as a crowd. All this makes it a valuable reference--detailed enough for editors and writers, accessible enough for students and casual definition seekers, updated with the new vocabulary of technology, and rigorous enough for the linguistic perfectionists. --Stephanie Gold
Book Description
Two products in one the complete Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition and the Collegiate Thesaurus. 21 search options and more than 1,300 illustrations. Full text fits on most hard drives for extra convenience.
Customer Reviews:
Shortcomings.......2007-09-18
This product really needs the addition of an audio pronouncing feature, in our opinion. Without this feature, correct pronouncing is quite difficult.
Great Dictionary.......2007-04-17
I have been using a Merriam-Webster dictionary for years. When I bought a new computer my old software needed replacing. I bought a Dictionary by Random House and was very disappointed. It did not even show how to hyphenate words. I then bought the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and love it. It works like it is supposed to and has the features I need.
Barely misses perfection.......2007-04-03
If you're fed up with fumbling even a collegiate-sized or paperback book on your lap just to quickly look up a definition, synonym or spelling, you'll love this electronic dictionary/thesaurus, which conveniently presents all that right on the computer screen where you're already working.
But unfortunately, you'll have to minimize your current program to get to the desktop icon for this program, since it offers no way to pop it up from an icon in the tray -- its worst shortcoming, in my view.
The only way to have it immediately available is by running it, then minimizing it to the taskbar, where it consumes space along with other programs you may already have minimized there. I suppose that's really a minor quibble, but it bugs me greatly because there's no reason beyond lazy programming that it couldn't have offered a tray icon option.
The two exceptions to that are if you're writing in MS Word or Corel's WordPerfect, where macros can be installed as buttons, allowing you to highlight a word and pop it up in the dictionary/thesaurus by clicking that button.
But that's a sadly limited use of a major program's pop-up capability, which with a little extra programming could have been expanded to include virtually any selected word on the screen, as is possible with some other electronic dictionaries.
That notwithstanding, the program offers the same robust selection of definitions and synonyms you'll find in the printed Merriam-Webster Collegiate, but with a number of easily clickable search options for finding them. They're also presented in basically the same excellent format Merriam-Webster uses in its printed versions.
If you can't find a suitable word in the 225,000 definitions and 340,000 synonyms and related words available in this program, you're probably looking for something that'll drive whoever's reading what you're writing to a dictionary.
Selecting the dictionary or thesaurus is as quick and easy as clicking on either from a drop-down menu prominently at the top of the program -- and you can set either as the default on startup.
Other configuration preferences are sparsely limited to changing text size/color and background color, and setting a default for any of the 19 search "types."
To look up a word, you can select from three tabbed options:
Basic Searches (Entry word is...): You'd likely use this most. As soon as you enter the first letter a list pops up in a lower window with everything beginning with that letter. As you type additional letters, you increasingly drill down to words nearer what you're looking for, ending with your word highlighted when you type the final letter. This is basically exactly the same routine as when you use the "Find" feature of any Windows help program -- and sure beats flipping through pages of a book.
Advanced Searches: This is a Boolean thing using AND, OR, NOT and some possible parenthetical expressions. I found it to be mostly an advanced piece of uselessness.
Browse: This is basically like thumbing through a printed dictionary starting at some letter and functions exactly the same as drilling down through the letters of a word using the Basic search feature. But -- and that's a big BUT -- its two options of searching for either the beginning or ending of a word can be a lifesaver when you have no idea how to begin spelling that word. For example: Try looking up "ptarmigan" under "T" or "mnemonic" under "N." You'll get nowhere fast on either. But search for the fairly obvious endings and sooner than later you'll find those words.
One other quibble I have with this program is that it refuses to recognize my USB mouse wheel for scrolling through the word lists. But I've learned to be content with the side slider.
Its few shortcomings aside, at Amazon's price this program's a world-class bargain, functions flawlessly for what it's intended and hands down beats wrestling with a book.
Perfect -- almost!.......2007-03-16
This is a can't -live-without- it reference product. It's got all sorts of ways to help the writer or speaker. Is it Antartic or Antarctic? Athelete or Athlete? What's a four letter word synonym for morose? What is the correct pronouncement of herb? Whet? What rhymes with storage? There are at least 15 valuable word tools in this relatively inexpensive program. I would pay twice the price.
That said, I had difficulty installing the software on my iMac G5 running O.S. 10.4. I ordered the CD (so glad I did) and everything was a snap except ... no pronunciation unless the CD was inserted. This is fixable, but not without cnversations with M-W. And their instructions didn't work well. PCs? I couldn't say. What the hell -- take a chance.
Historical Use of this Dictionary.......2007-02-24
This edition of the Webster's Dictionaray was recommended to me when I began writing historical fiction. Many of the entries have a note giving the year the word was first used. I had previously used an Oxford English Dictionary, which does not give the year of origin. The nice thing about the Oxford, however, is that it contains many words used in England along with English, rather than American, spellings.
This would also be a useful dictionary for the high school student. It has a presentation page making it a nice gift for students.
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The new Merriam-Webster??s Dictionary and Thesaurus merges the definition, pronunciation, and usage guidance feature of a dictionary with the standard synonym and antonym features of a thesaurus. The result is a unique volume that integrates information from both reference sources into a unified whole-giving users the best of both essential language tools. Paperback. 1,248 pages.
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Merriam-webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.......2007-06-09
This is a great product. The shipment was so quick that I was unable to cancel the order just a couple of hours after being placed.
I had ordered them for a 6th grade graduation class and then found out that the principal wanted the hardback version. So now, I am stuck with 12 brand new paperback dictionaries.
very useful.......2007-05-16
this is definitely going to be kept and well used. thick, which in this case, a good thing. tons of words, good font, definitely useful
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Intermediate thesaurus is written especially for the needs of students in grades 5 to 8, ages 11 to 14. This high quality, easy-to-use thesaurus contains synonyms, related words, idiomatic phrases, near antonyms and antonyms.Brief definitions for shared meanings. A verbal illustration for every synonym. Laminated hardcover. Contains 896 pages.
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Perfect for my 5th grader.......2007-03-02
My 5th grade son has had no problems using this thesaurus. The format is very easy to understand and the words contained within are compatable with the words middle school children are learning.
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A thesaurus that fits in the palm of your hand! More than 80,000 words are featured in this compact compendium of synonyms, related words and antonyms. Find the right word whenever you need it.
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A thesaurus designed for students grades 9 and up, ages 14 and older. Over 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic phrases, and related and contrasted words. Brief definitions describe shared meanings. Abundant usage examples.
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Merriam Webster's School Thesaurus.......2007-02-17
I purchased a complete set for my language arts teacher and saved her over $50.00. Thanks for helping save our school money we can use for other school supplies.
Book Description
New title! A guide for parents, teachers, and students. Fun activities provide students with a thorough introduction to using a dictionary and thesaurus. Designed for students of all skill levels grades 4-7. Workbook with perforated pages. Bonus section of vocabulary-buliding exercises. Learning objectives in teacher's section.
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Great value and convenient.......2005-08-27
I found the product after ordering for $.99 in my local drug store, but it still wasn't a bad order considering shipping.
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