This application brings the full "Roget's II: The New Thesaurus" to your fingertips.
Includes "Moby Thesaurus II" by Grady Ward that adds 30,260 root words, with 2,520,264 synonyms and related terms.
Want to increase your vocabulary? Want to better express yourself? Want all this on your iPhone or iPod touch?
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Main Features:
* entire text of this superior reference title
* complete appendices and front matter
* real-time progressive look-up
* wildcard searches for unknown spellings and quizzes
* words within definitions are clickable
* bookmarks with notations
* automatic history
* AI boosted anagram generator
* 3D Touch support
* DarkMode support
* iPad "Fast App Switching" (Multitasking)
* iPad Pro multi-screen and Drag & Drop
* iPhone 15 & iOS17 support
* Support for iPhones, iPads, iPods and macOS
* hyperlinks to (optional) "UniDict® Engine" dictionaries
* complete offline use - no internet connection is required
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus is Houghton Mifflin's easy to use, accurate, and authoritative English thesaurus. This essential reference offers users the resources of the English language to enhance the expressiveness and accuracy of their communications. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus combines the most useful features of a thesaurus and a dictionary; each entry contains a short definition as well as a comprehensive list of synonyms for the headword. This up-to-date database also features extensive, and useful, cross-references.
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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Works with these "UniDict®" dictionaries from Enfour:
American Heritage Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of English
Australian Oxford Dictionary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Longman English-Japanese Dictionary
and many more...
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Is Roget's II free?
Roget's II is not free (it costs 4.99), however it doesn't contain in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Roget's II legit?
⚠️ The Roget's II app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
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
Kludgy and unhelpful
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.
Broken
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.
Crashing
Also getting download new version followed immediately by crash. Same with Oxford English Dictionary.
Crash sends me directly back to App Store
Total Failure
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.
Doesn’t work at all
Used to work, but now just takes me to the app store. What is this?
App simply not working
This app is fine but it’s started to fail consistently. When launched it simply shows an X and the phrase “total failure.” Nothing appears to resolve this. What a pity!
Crashing issues
I bought this app a month ago and was working flawlessly. Yesterday, I tried using it due to a notification that say download new version. I went to the app store ro see if there is an update but there is none. Tried to email the developer but even on the email support for the app store ad would not allow me to open.
great thesaurus
I’m stunned at the negative reviews here. I use it daily and find it an invaluable tool for my thinking/writing. It’s stable, easy to read and width every penny.
Perhaps not optimized for MacOS
App crashes under Catalina. Works great on my iPhone. I'd LOVE to see MacOS support fixed in this app. Fortunately, I can just refer to my iPhone.
I'd have posted a help ticket instead of a ★☆☆☆☆ review, but your App Support page is outdated, it's loaded with unrelated FAQs, and it doesn't have a link to contact anybody for anything other than PEBKAC issues.