Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"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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Author Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869
Title Roget's Thesaurus
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roget%27s_Thesaurus
Credits MICRA, Inc.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 50.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PE: Language and Literatures: English
Subject English language -- Synonyms and antonyms
Category Text
EBook-No. 22
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jul 16, 2025
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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