Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers: Over 2,300 Emotive, Evocative, Descriptive Synonyms, Antonyms, and Related Terms Every Writer Should Know

although i look all words up on the computer, this book is so handy and so quick and easy to use when i'm writing anything, that it's by my side all the time now. it's fun to just page through and see how the material is presented...I don't think Mr. Roget would be pleased, but I am!

This past Christmas I purchased a number of books to help me build a larger working vocabulary. It's one of my New Year's resolutions. ROGET'S THESAURUS OF WORDS FOR WRITERS isn't set up like most Thesauri and can be enjoyably read from front to back. This book is perfect for what I want to do.

Easy to follow and helpful. Categorizes new words to learn (for example, it has a section for words that mean: Angry) and gives examples for each. Good reference for writers, but for me personally, it didn't quite scratch my vocabulary itch and I still find I'm using an online thesaurus. This is helpful to learn new words overall though, and it makes it easy to remember since they use categories to organize the words, rather than a regular thesaurus where it's basically random

Just what I wanted

Not a complete Thesaurus but, it will assist when needed.

I usually don’t write reviews but I just wanted to be honest! What’s inside is gold, but it has never once had the words I was looking for lol. But I find great stuff if I just look through it. So it’s not bad but not always helpful

This is NOT a thesaurus for serious writers. I was looking for obscure, colorful words - Nada, nothing new here. Words I already use and or are trying to avoid and they are overused.Buy the updated Thesaurus itself. What a waste of $15.

Love this book. It is not exactly what I expected and doesn't have all the words i would like to use, but it's a handy reference which allows me options for over-used words. Worth the price.

Gave it to my son whom is starting to write as I do. Like me, he thumbed through and said he’d take a greater look but he knew every word he saw, as I had. But I’ve been writing novels for 30 years so I have a massive vocabulary. Still, I think it’s great. This would be a great grad gift for a teen or jr high student.

a book all of us at school were advised to get, but as the original Roget's is not easy to get hold of, this book is not as easy to use as the Oxford one.

USEFUL PRODUCT.WILL IMPROVE VOCABULARY.

学習英和辞典では難易度・頻度に応じて見出し語はA,B,C,Dに分かれているが、本辞典では見出し語がA,B ランクの語で、同意語、反意語、関連度としてあげられているのがC,Dランクの語である。たとえば、mistake の見出し語項目には、同意語として、aberration, blunder, contretemps, faux pas, gaffe, mea culpa, solecism, 反意語としてdefinitude, faultlessがあがっている。つまり平易な語より難しいラテン系、ギリシャ語系の語を知るための辞典である。この辞典で驚くべきは全ての語にフルセンテンスの作例、引用例が付いていることである(e.g. Looking at a Japanese customer directly in the eye during conversation is considered an egregious faux pas.)。また巻末の語索引が完備しているので一種の難語辞典としても使える。プロの書き手を目指すネイティブスピーカーを対象にしたシソーラスであるが、難語に関心のある我々日本人にも参考になる点が多い。

Ce livre est une mine de mots peu usités. Il doit etre très utile pour un professionnel de l'écriture, mais il faut déjà etre bilingue !