Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget set the standard for thesauri in 1852 when he published "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus)". His has been the standard for over 100 years and continues to be the leading authority in thesauri. YourDictionary.com has Roget's Thesaurus built right into the word definitions.

Roget's Thesaurus has not been out of print since it's first publishing. It is considered the leading authority in thesauri and the Webster's New Word™ Thesaurus is based on Roget's original categories and A-Z structure with a new thematic index. There is new introductory material and an essay on Roget that re-introduces his organizational technique. An appendix contains lists of important terms grouped by their word endings such as -cracy/-crat (government types), -ology/-ologist (field of scholarship) and more.

Webster's New World™ Roget's A-Z Thesaurus contains the most synonyms with the broadest and most useful range of comparisons, examples, and related terms and ideas as well as offering synonym discussion paragraphs and distinct lists of examples. Whether you're a speaker or writer, college student or teacher, you'll find that Webster's New World™ Roget's A-Z Thesaurus can help you say it better and more effectively.

With over 300,000 synonymous, related and derived terms with brief definitions to distinguish between the senses of words and their related synonyms you'll be able to say or write what you mean competently and authoritatively.

Idioms are included and extensive synonym studies as well as usage examples allowing you to be sure you are saying and writing exactly what you mean in exactly the way it should be said.