Roget's II: New Thesaurus

More often than not, it fails. How is ‘snide’ not found.?

A great app for the literate.

For every entry there is a huge list if synonyms relating to almost every possible meaning of the word. You have to wade through this huge list to find what you're looking for. It's completely useless and breaks the flow of writing. My paperback version is so much better. Why is this different? What a waste of money.

I have the print version of Roget's Thesaurus, and it takes up a fair amount of real estate on my desk. Looking up a word takes time and I find myself singing the "a-b-c" song in my head while scrolling through the alphabetized list. Finally, Roget's has come out with a digital version of their thesaurus. Compared to other thesaurus apps, the Roget's Thesaurus is more comprehensive and thorough in terms of definitions and synonyms. Whereas the other apps would simply give you a handful of synonyms, Roget's gives you a plethora of choices from either the original word or a variation thereof, as well as provide you the ability to research the definition of each synonym. On the downside, it utilizes american spelling, and a tutorial on how to navigate would be helpful.

Ripoff

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.

This used to work perfectly. Now it doesn’t work at all. It continuously sends me prompts to download a new version but… THERE ISN”T ONE. There also isn’t anyone home at customer support. This has been going on for weeks. Tragic, because it used to be a 5 star product.

Also getting download new version followed immediately by crash. Same with Oxford English Dictionary. Crash sends me directly back to App Store

Tried Roget’s II on multiple devices. You can use it for a few minutes before it gives the error “Total Failure” and crashes. Uninstalling it does not help. “Total Failure” is the perfect description of this app.