Roget's II: New Thesaurus

The search results are displayed in 8-pt font, and the Settings control merely changes the spacing of the display. I would like to see the results 12-pt font for easier reading, or maybe even bigger. But you’ve got no options with this.

This is a writer’s thesaurus, sort of a reversed dictionary, and is most definitely different from your typical thesaurus. It’s supposed to inspire ideas, and it gives you conceptually related words to the one being searched. That being said, this is my 3rd(?) copy of the book; the bad reviews are those who don’t understand the purpose of the thesaurus. If you’re looking for a basic thesaurus, this is not it! However, I will say that this is 100% my most used tool and provides exactly what it is intended to do.

This is a bad product. Can't say enough how lousy. You will be surely disappointed, don't waste your time. See for yourself right now: Example: word I researched: "carnivore" App supplied these supposed "synonyms": amphibian, aquatic, biped, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, Brillat-Savarin, canine, cannibal, Chiroptera, connoisseur of food, consumer, cosmopolite, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, feline, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gnawer, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, insectivore, invertebrate, lactovegetarian, Lagomorpha, Lucullus, luncher, mammal, mammalian, man-eater, marsupial, marsupialian, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, primate, Primates, quadruped, reptile, rodent, Rodentia, ruminant, scavenger, trencherman, ungulate, varmint, vegetarian, vermin, vertebrate

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paid $4.99, had a lot of other options which were free... bad decisions is all I make :-)

I want to update my review of a year ago of app “Roget’s II The New Thesaurus-Third Edition”. My clue should have been the rebranding of it as “Moby Thesaurus II” which in reality, is The Roget’s Thesaurus Light. I just queried the word “seismic” and nothing came up after repeated tries in different contexts. I then consulted my real Roget’s Thesaurus in my paperback Penguin Reference copy, edition of 2004, and sure enough, it was in there with loads of related words. Moby II is okay as an app, but it’s not the real (and thorough) McCoy! I’ve reduced my former 5 star rating to 3 stars.

This has been my go to program for writing and editing for about eleven years, thrilled I found it, love the search options, the history search, everything. No, I'm not just saying this to ear myself (read myself??) A few programs stand out in my long hx of cmputer use, and this, along with Quicken, do everything I might want thm to do, almost reading my mind.

it would be very helpful to me if the list of synonyms was sorted by parts of speech… separating nouns, verbs, adj, etc. now i must search a list of 200 words (of all types) to find one of perhaps 40 nouns i’ve quit using roget because of this

I’m not a fan of the UI. It’s not clean or modern, but if the app works, I can live with clunky UI. The problem is that I need the thesaurus to be useful. Roget’s II lists a hodgepodge of obscure words as synonyms. Look up “wet”. Asinine, brainless, drunk, disguised, impregnate… Are these British slang? I just want another word to describe something sopped with moisture. Shouldn’t a thesaurus let me filter for meaning? Shouldn’t it limit itself to adjectives like the original word? In this app, nouns, adjectives, and verbs are jumbled together. “It’s wet outside” is not the same as “It’s evening mist outside” or “It’s foolheaded outside” or “It’s guzzle outside.” I could live with associated words and phrases as long as they were filtered for meaning, but this output is chaos. Now type this into ChatGPT instead: Give me ten synonyms for “wet” in the sentence “It’s wet outside.” Instant gratification. My suggestion isn’t to incorporate AI into your app and tack GPT to the name, but to offer a more sensible output with more relevant results. Filter by meaning. Filter by the parts of speech. Please be more innovative. That’s something computers can’t mimic yet.

The thesaurus is unusable: all words dumped into a single window of tiny print, and you can only change the line spacing of that print but not the font itself.