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Roget's Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

Roget's Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

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"Roget's Thesaurus" by Peter Mark Roget is a reference work first published in 1852. Roget, a British physician and lexicographer, created this revolutionary system of verbal classification to help writers struggling with composition. Rather than arranging words alphabetically, his thesaurus organizes them into six primary classes with over a thousand meaning clusters, grouping words by semantic relationships and conceptual connections. Originally containing 15,000 words, the work has expanded through successive editions while maintaining Roget's foundational organizational system, becoming one of the most widely used English-language reference tools. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  1. 1Roget’s Thesaurus7,500 chars
  2. 2CLASS I WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS(1)59,273 chars
  3. 3CLASS I WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS(2)59,999 chars
  4. 4CLASS I WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS(3)59,435 chars
  5. 5CLASS I WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS(4)50,165 chars
  6. 6CLASS II WORDS RELATING TO SPACE(1)59,069 chars
  7. 7CLASS II WORDS RELATING TO SPACE(2)59,429 chars
  8. 8CLASS II WORDS RELATING TO SPACE(3)55,085 chars
  9. 9CLASS III WORDS RELATING TO MATTER(1)59,950 chars
  10. 10CLASS III WORDS RELATING TO MATTER(2)59,870 chars
  11. 11CLASS III WORDS RELATING TO MATTER(3)27,018 chars
  12. 12CLASS IV WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS(1)59,528 chars
  13. 13CLASS IV WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS(2)58,329 chars
  14. 14CLASS IV WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS(3)59,950 chars
  15. 15CLASS IV WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS(4)58,299 chars
  16. 16CLASS IV WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS(5)21,974 chars
  17. 17CLASS V WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS DIVISION (I) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION(1)59,980 chars
  18. 18CLASS V WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS DIVISION (I) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION(2)56,466 chars
  19. 19CLASS V WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS DIVISION (I) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION(3)59,373 chars
  20. 20CLASS V WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS DIVISION (I) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION(4)52,229 chars
  21. 21SECTION V. RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION(1)59,643 chars
  22. 22SECTION V. RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION(2)59,947 chars
  23. 23SECTION V. RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION(3)39,274 chars
  24. 24CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS(1)52,246 chars
  25. 25CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS(2)59,708 chars
  26. 26CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS(3)56,789 chars
  27. 27CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS(4)55,182 chars
  28. 28CLASS VI WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS(5)6,979 chars
  29. 293. MORAL CONDITIONS(1)59,973 chars
  30. 303. MORAL CONDITIONS(2)30,519 chars