Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS IV DIVISION II SECTION III. 2. CONVENTIONAL MEANS


560. Language -- N. language; phraseology &c 569; speech &c 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c 563.

561. Letter -- N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c (writing) 590; type &c (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC † , abecedary † , christcross-row.

562. Word -- N. word, term, vocable; name &c 564; phrase &c 566; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c (grammar) 567; ideophone † .

563. Neologism -- N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym † ; barbarism.

564. Nomenclature -- N. nomenclature; naming &c v.; nuncupation † , nomination, baptism; orismology † ; onomatopoeia; antonomasia † .

565. Misnomer -- N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.] ; Mrs.

566. Phrase -- N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence, paragraph; figure of speech &c 521; idiom, idiotism † ; turn of expression; style.

567. Grammar -- N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive † ; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi [Lat.] ; Lindley Murray &c (schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c (language) 560.

568. Solecism -- N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae [Lat.] ; slipslop † ; bull; barbarism, impropriety.

569. Style -- N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language &c (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire [Fr.] .

570. Perspicuity -- N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c (intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c (manifestation) 525; definiteness, definition; exactness &c 494; explicitness, lucidness.

571. Obscurity -- N. obscurity &c (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words; ambiguity &c 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness &c 475, inexactness &c 495; what d'ye call 'em &c (neologism) 563 [Obs.]; darkness of meaning.

572. Conciseness -- N. conciseness &c adj.; brevity, the soul of wit, laconism † ; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c (shortening) 201; compression &c 195; epitome &c 596; monostich † ; brunch word, portmanteau word.

573. Diffuseness -- N. diffuseness &c adj.; amplification &c v.; dilating &c v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.] ; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584; looseness.

574. Vigor -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c adj.; intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity.

575. Feebleness -- N. feebleness &c adj..

576. Plainness -- N. plainness &c adj.; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words

577. Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c † .

578. Elegance -- N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c adj.; concinnity † , euphony, numerosity † ; Atticism † , classicalism † , classicism.

579. Inelegance -- N. inelegance; stiffness &c adj.; unlettered Muse [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c 563; solecism &c 568; mannerism &c (affectation) 855; euphuism † ; fustian &c 577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism † .

580. Voice -- N. voice; vocality † ; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice &c (loud) 404; musical voice &c 413; intonation; tone of voice &c (sound) 402.

581. Aphony -- N. aphony † , aphonia † ; dumbness &c adj.; obmutescence † ; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony † ; cacoepy † ; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; raucity † ; harsh voice &c 410, unmusical voice &c 414; falsetto, childish treble mute; dummy.

582. Speech -- N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation † , oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.

583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering -- N. inarticulateness; stammering &c v.; hesitation &c v.; impediment in one's speech; titubancy † , traulism † ; whisper &c (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl, tardiloquence † ; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c (want of voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.

584. Loquacity -- N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c adj.; garrulity; multiloquence † , much speaking.

585. Taciturnity -- N. silence, muteness, obmutescence † ; taciturnity, pauciloquy † , costiveness † , curtness; reserve, reticence &c (concealment) 528.

586. Allocution -- N. allocution, alloquy † , address; speech &c 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.

587. Response -- N. &c see Answer 462.

588. Conversation -- N. conversation, interlocution; collocution † , colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.

589. Soliloquy -- N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology † .

590. Writing -- N. writing &c v.; chirography, stelography † , cerography † ; penmanship, craftmanship † ; quill driving; typewriting.

591. Printing -- N. printing; block printing, type-printing; plate printing &c 558 (engraving); the press &c (publication) 531; composition.

592. Correspondence -- N. correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty † , letter card, picture post card; postal [U.S.] , card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription † ; post &c (messenger) 534.

593. Book -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule † ; tract, tractate † ; livret † ; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion † , circular, publication; chap book.

594. Description -- N. description, account, statement, report; expose &c (disclosure) 529; specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief &c (abstract) 596; return &c (record) 551; catalogue raisonne &c (list) 86 [Fr.]; guidebook &c (information) 527.

595. Dissertation -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate † , tractation † ; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect † ; excursus.

596. Compendium -- N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo [Lat.] , analysis, pandect † , digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.

597. Poetry -- N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon † , Pierides, Pierian spring.

598. Prose -- N. prose, prose writer.

599. The Drama -- N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus † , Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.