what is the difference b/w synonyms and thesaurus?

Question

Why do we use synonyms and thesaurus

Answer 1

A synonym is a word that means pretty much the same thing as another word. Like a synonym for "big" could be "large". A thesaurus is a book that lists synonyms and antonyms for certian words. So if you looked up "big" in a thesaurus, your would find "large, gigantic, huge" under synonyms, and "small, tiny, little" under the antonyms.



Hope this helps!!!

Answer 2

There are big differences between a synonym and a thesaurus. A synonym a word or expression that means the same as another word or expression.

A thesaurus is a reference in which you find words of similar meanings. Otherwise known as synonyms.

Answer 3

Sometimes, you have the gist of a word you want to use, but you can't think of the exact word you want to use.



You can look through a thesaurus and determine the word closest to the meaning you want to convey.



You also have to make sure not to repeat the same word over and over again; if you find yourself recapping or paraphrasing, and you don't want to simply restate a sentence, you can use a thesaurus and put it in "other words".

Answer 4

Synonyms go *in* the thesaurus. Asking why we use synonyms and thesauruses is kind of like asking why we use "words and dictionaries".... or why we use "fingers and gloves". One houses the other.

Answer 5

A thesaurus provides alternative words that are more suited to the image/feeling/mood a writer wants to convey.



It was a dark and stormy night. ---- Cliché description.



Syn. for dark: aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill-lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid, misty, murky, nebulous, obfuscous, obscure, opaque, overcast, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shaded, shadowy, shady, somber, sooty, stygian, sunless, tenebrous, unlighted, unlit, vague





Stormy:

bitter, blowy, blustering, blustery, boisterous, cold, coming down, damp, dirty, foul, frigid, furious, gusty, howling, menacing, murky, pouring, raging, raining cats and dogs, rainy, riproaring, roaring, savage, squally, stormful, storming, tempestuous, threatening, torrid, turbulent, violent,





So you could creatively shift the mood of your sentence by writing:



In the dead of darkness, the air was tenebrous and turbulent.



The thesaurus helps the writer find just the right words. It was my favorite book to read as a kid.

Answer 6

thesauruses have synonyms in them...and antonyms, some times....synonyms are used when you need another word for the word you want. ;) bai...good luck with wateva u need this forr!

Answer 7

to sound smarter or to not use the same word over and over.