Revised and updated, the new edition of the Random House Webster's College Thesaurus retains its best-selling feature--main entries illustrated with actual sentences to show how the word and its synonyms are used.

It's Comprehensive: You'll find synonyms for terms like wannabe, soi-distant, laid-back, kvetch, yo-yo, zaftig, and x-rated. You'll gain insights into words like agita, ASAP, attrite, bloviate, bodice, ripper, dis, and hot-button, all discussed in a brand-new essay on the burgeoning vocabulary of the Nineties and beyond. You'll explore the more than 12,000 main entries, with their synonym and antonym lists offering over 400,000 word choices. It's the Easiest Thesaurus to Use: All the main entries are in simple A- Z listing. Thousands of example sentences show you an appropriate context for each meaning of each main entry term. The Thumb Index helps you find your way quickly to the word you're looking for. It's Authoritative: Synonym and antonym lists cover all levels of vocabulary, from formal to slang. This reliable reference is recommended for students, writers, public speakers, and business people.

This gift set combines a 180,000-entry desk dictionary (more than 600,000 copies in print) with a 275,000-word thesaurus (nearly 600,000 copies sold). Handsomely slipcased, the two bestselling books have been updated and enlarged to make them even more useful and attractive. Thumb-indexed.

It's Comprehensive: You'll find synonyms for terms like wannabe, soi-distant, laid-back, kvetch, yo-yo, zaftig, and x-rated. You'll gain insights into words like agita, ASAP, attrite, bloviate, bodice, ripper, dis, and hot-button, all discussed in a brand-new essay on the burgeoning vocabulary of the Nineties and beyond. You'll explore the more than 12,000 main entries, with their synonym and antonym lists offering over 400,000 word choices. It's the Easiest Thesaurus to Use: All the main entries are in simple A- Z listing. Thousands of example sentences show you an appropriate context for each meaning of each main entry term. The Thumb Index helps you find your way quickly to the word you're looking for. It's Authoritative: Synonym and antonym lists cover all levels of vocabulary, from formal to slang. This reliable reference is recommended for students, writers, public speakers, and business people. "From the Hardcover edition."

-- Over 11,000 entry words, 200,000 synonyms and antonyms, and 400 synonym studies.-- Convenient paperback format for backpack or desktop.

Based on The Random House Dictionary of the English language, the unabridged ed. Entries are in one alphabetical listing and include biographical and geographical names, synonyms and antonyms, and abbreviations.

New! The only hardcover thesaurus available in mass market size - the perfect companion to theRandom House Webster's Concise Dictionary. With its simple and familiar A-Z format, handy small size, and up-to-the-minute entries, theRandom House Webster's Concise Thesaurusis an essential reference for writing at home or on the go. This comprehensive hardcover reference will rescue those elusive words from the back of your brain and the tip of your tongue. Features 11,000 clearly labeled, alphabetical entries, over 200,000 synonyms and antonyms, and over 400 synonym studies An indispensable, handy, and durable thesaurus derived from the renowned Random House Webster's Thesaurus Includes a New-Words essay and helpful suggestions on how to avoid insensitive and offensive language Offers a wide range of vocabulary from formal speech to colloquialisms From the Hardcover edition.

Authoritative, up-to-date, and with exceptionally clear print, the Paperback Oxford Large Print Thesaurus contains over 130,000 alternative and opposite words, drawing on the most recent findings of the language research programme at Oxford University Press.Its clear page layout, designed in association with the Royal National Institute for the Blind, offers enlarged fonts, larger margins, generous line-spacing, and good quality paper, making it quick and easy to find the word you need. Special attention has been given to the binding and choice ofpaper, ensuring that there is minimum 'glare' and 'show-through'.Ideal for both adults and children, particularly those with vision impairment, the Paperback Oxford Large Print Thesaurus is a valuable reference tool for use at home, school, or the office, and is great for word games. Lightweight and affordable, it is also the perfect companion to the PaperbackOxford Large Print Dictionary.