Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget.

Peter Mark Roget

Date:: 1894

Credit: Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$romantic, high-flown, flighty, extravagact, fanatic, enthusiastic, Uto- pian, Quixotic. ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nuUbus ; unsuDstantial l\:c. 4; illusory &c. {fallacious) 495- ^, . 1 • fabulous, legendary; myth-ic, -ological; chimerical; imagm-, vision- ary; notional; fan-cy,-ciful,-tastical; whimsical; fairy,-like. Division (IL) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS. Section I. Nature of Ideas communicate©. 516. [Idea to be conveyed.] mean- ing. [Thing signified.]—N. meaning; signific-ation, -ance ; sense, expression ; im-, pur-port; drift, tenour, spirit, bear- ing, colouring; scope. matter; subject, -matter; argument, text, sum and substance; gist &c. 5. general -, broad substantial -, col- loquial -, literal -, plain -, simple -, natural -, unstrained -, true &c. {exact) 494-, honest &c. 543 -, prima facie &c. {manifest) 525- meaning. literality; after acceptation ; allusion &c. (Jatency) 526; suggestion &c. {info7'- mation) ^27; synonym; figure of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c. {inte7-2n'etation) 522. V. mean, signify, express; im-, pur- port ; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense ; tell -, speak- of; touch on ; point -, allude- to; drive at; involve &c. {latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm) 535. understand by &c. {interpret^ 522. ^ Adj. meaning &c. V.; expressive, sug- gestive, allusive; signific-ant, -ative, -atory; pithy; full of -, pregnant with- meaning. declaratory &c 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous; tantamount &c. {equivalent) 27; implied &c. {latent) 526; explicit &c. 525. Adv. to that effect; that is to say &c. {beinff interpreted) 522. 518. Intellig-ibillty isr.intelli- gibility ; clearness, explicitness &c. adj.; lucidity, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking &c. {manifestation) 525; pre- cision &c. 494; 4>(ovavTa avveToi(Ti, a word to the wise. V. be -intelligible &c. adj.-, speak 517. [Absence of meaning.] Un- meaning'ness. — ir. unmeaningness &c. adj. ; scrabble. empty sound, dead letter, vox et prce- t&'ea nihil; ' a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fuiy, signifying nothing'; ' sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.' nonsense, jargon, gibberish, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, bavardage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugm canorce; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash; stufi, - and nonsense ; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle ; absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c. (unintelligibilitg) 519- V. mean nothing; be -unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble. Adj. unmeaning; meaning-, sense- less; nonsensical; void of -sense &c. 516. in-, un-expressive; vacant; not -sig- nificant &c. 516; insignificant. trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle- faddle, twaddling, quibbling. unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. {la- tent) 526. inexpressible, undefinable, incommuni- cable. 519. Vnintellig-iblllty wr.un- intelligibility, incomprehensibility, im- perspicuity; inconceivableness, vague- ness, &c. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity'&c. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty &c. 475 ; perplexity &c. {confusio7i) 59; spi- nosity; obscui-um 2Jer obscuHus; mystifi-$