Now updated with 20% new information, this revised thesaurus is a bestselling classic, retaining Roget's brilliant category-based organizing system, an innovative ordering of the English language to organize readers' thoughts and stimulate ideas. Includes nearly 3,000 new words.
Only in Roget's International Thesaurus 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.
Includes more than 1,000 subject categories, 325,000 words and phrases, and an index-reference system
Abridged ed. of The new dictionary of American slang c1986.
Completely revised and expanded, this is the ultimate slang dictionary, giving the meaning of more than 15,000 words and phrases of modern slang.
This edition is the standard, Roget's Thesaurus and contains more entries than any competing volumes. Index.