Synonym a Day

This website is dedicated to the proposition that all thesauruses are not created equal. In fact, most of them offer nothing but mundane alternatives to words for which you want a great synonym. For example, if you want to use another word for large, does it really help you to find words like “giant”, “enormous” and “huge” in a thesaurus? In fact, don’t you always find that the synonyms they offer are boring choices that you had already considered before even consulting the thesaurus?

This website offers a wonderful new synonym every day. They are taken from “The Thinker’s Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words” by Peter E. Meltzer (Norton). Each synonym is a word you have probably never heard of, but it is a completely legitimate and dictionary-recognized word in current use, which is neither archaic nor obsolete. As evidence of its legitimacy (and to show proper usage), each synonym is accompanied by an actual example of the word being used which is taken directly from recent newspapers, periodicals and books.

This site is the online go-to resource for finding those exceptional and unexpected words that will bring your writing to the next level.

Have you come across your own sophisticated synonym? Feel free to add it under our forum discussion page and be sure to include the author, title, publication and date if you have it.