Roget's Thesaurus - The Original Classic Edition

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Rogets Thesaurus. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Peter Mark Roget, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs dis [...]
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Rogets Thesaurus. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Peter Mark Roget, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Rogets Thesaurus: This first edition of this supplemented 1911 thesaurus (June 1991) is very much less complete than the latest editions of commercial thesauri, and is probably not suitable for use as an adjunct to word-processing programs, but it has no proprietary claims attached to it by MICRA, Inc., and does not contain any material published commercially after 1911....Unsubstantiality. - N. unsubstantiality obs3], insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility obs3]; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing. nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, neer a one contr]; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c. (smallness) 32; all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence, thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra Lat], nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil Lat]. shadow; phantom &c.(fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (imagination) 515; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423 Lat]; such stuff as dreams are made of Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble &c. 353; baseless fabric of a vision Tempest]; mockery. hollowness, blank; void &c. (absence) 187. inanity, fools paradise. ...Similarity. - N. similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement &c. 23; analogy, analogicalness obs3]; correspondence, homoiousia obs3], parity. connaturalness obs3], connaturality obs3]; brotherhood, family likeness. alliteration, rhyme, pun. repetition &c. 104; sameness &c. (identity) 13; uniformity &c. 16; isogamy obs3]. analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; ones second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum Lat], Arcades ambo obs3], birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne Lat]; gens de meme famille Fr]. parallel; simile; type &c. (metaphor) 521; image &c. (representation) 554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance. ... Adj. similar; resembling &c. v.; like, alike; twin. analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece Fr]; such as, so; homoiousian obs3]. connatural obs3], congener, allied to; akin to &c. (consanguineous) 1 1. approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing. exact &c. (true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes deau Fr]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium Lat], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like. ...Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind &c. (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented &c. 83; original. nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid Lat], as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo Lat]. diversified &c. 16a.