| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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THE CATEGORY INDEX is designed to take the user from a synonym paragraph in the main body of the thesaurus to related words of opposite meaning elsewhere in the thesaurus. A category reference, which appears at the end of every synonym paragraph, leads from the main text to the Category Index.
favorite
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1. Being a favorite: favored, popular, preferred, well-liked. See LIKE. 2. Given special, usually doting treatment: darling, fair-haired, favored, pet1. See TREAT WELL. |
The category reference LIKE is a hypertext link to the entry like in the Category Index.
like, dislike
- like
- noun
- admirer
- adoration
- attraction
- bent
- bias
- delight
- favorite
- liking
- lure
- lure
- public
- taste
- dislike
- noun
- disapproval
- disgust
- dislike
- drip
- imposition
- offense
- prejudice
- unwelcome
- vociferation
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| The lists of entries in the Category Index, such as the one at like, contain words related to the word looked up, in this case favorite. These related words are divided into groups by part of speech. In this list are found such words as the nouns admirer, attraction, and bias and the adjectives agreeable, attractive, and biased. These words are cross-references directing the reader back to entries in the thesaurus. At the entry for the adjective agreeable, for example, the user finds the group of synonyms for agreeable that ends with the category reference LIKE and searches through such synonyms as congenital and good to see if that list contains the desired word. | |
| Most category references list two words as headwords, the second being opposite or contrastive in meaning to the first word, as with like, dislike. Under dislike appear words of opposite meaning grouped by part of speech. Looking up the entry for the noun dislike in the thesaurus the user finds the synonyms disinclination, disrelish, distaste, and mislike. | |
One or more additional headwords sometimes appear. For example in some cases there are three groups of words, the third group consisting of words that are neutral in meaning. At excess for example we find the headwords
excess, insufficiency, enough
The group of words under enough are neutral in meaning. | |
| Another type of headword group appears at smells, where the headword smells is followed by good smells, bad smells and smell. | |
| Finally, many lists occur with only one headword, such as occurs at the headword words. only a single undifferentiated list of words appears at such an entry. | |
In some cases more than one meaning of a thesaurus entry appears at the same entry and part of speech in the Category Index. This is indicated by a number enclosed in parentheses. For example at sounds noun is found
hearing (3)
This means that the entry for the noun hearing in the thesaurus contains three meanings with three different synonym lists that fit in the category sounds. | |
| The Category Index opens up the thesaurus, offering many more choices than does the traditional alphabetical thesaurus. | |
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Category Index
ability
absence
accept
accompanied
action
affect
affirm
agree
allow
approach
ask
assemble
attack
attitude
awareness
be
beautiful
beings
belief
better
big
blood
body
breath
calm
care for
careful
cause
certain
change
choice
clean
clear
collect
colors
comfort
concern
conflict
connect
continue
control
convex
correct
count
courtesy
crimes
culture
decent
decide
dependence
desire
do
drugs
dry
easy
edge
enter
excess
excite
explain
explosion
express
fair
fast
fat
fear
feelings
flexible
foresight
forgiveness
forward
free
full
gambling
gender
geometry
get
give
good
grateful
greeting
group
hang
happen
happy
health
heavy
help
high
honest
hope
horizontal
hot
important
include
increase
industrious
ingestion
investigate
keep
kin
kind
knowledge
laughter
law
leftover
light
like
likely
limited
live
long
love
luck
machine
make
marks
marriage
matter
meaning
means
meet
money
mouth
move
native
near
necessary
new
obligation
offer
open
opinion
order
over
owned
pain
part
participate
pay
peace
performing arts
perspective
persuasion
pity
place
plain
planned
politics
possible
posture
praise
precede
precise
prepared
protection
purpose
push
put in
put on
reach
real
reason
regret
relevant
religion
remember
repetition
reproduction
request
resist
respect
restraint
reward
rich
right
rise
ritual
sacred
safety
same
sane
save
sea
see
seek
self-love
self
sex
sharp
show
simple
smells
smooth
solid
sounds
specific
start
straight
strike
strong
style
substitute
suggest
supernatural
support
surface
surprise
taste
teach
territory
thick
thing
thoughts
thrive
tighten
time
tired
touch
transactions
treat well
true
trust
try
understand
urban
used
usual
value
warn
wide
wild
willing
win
wise
words
work
youth
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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