Thursday, May 28, 2009

Synonym.com

A couple of weeks ago now, I stumbled across this nifty little site in my online travels. It is called Synonym.com and you can use it to find synonyms, antonyms, and definitions. When I translate I use a dictionary for the purpose of finding suitable synonyms, just like a thesaurus, not so much for the purpose of looking up the meaning of a word, so when I found this site I thought it might be helpful. Sometimes, also when I translate I change a word to its negative antonym, for instance a "settled lifestyle" as in where people live in the one spot and dont move around can also be a "non-nomadic lifestyle". So this site is helpful, because I can do a lot of tasks on the one site, and it provides definitions as well, so in the last stage of my word choice process when I double check in the dictionary the word of choice, I can do it all on the same site. It certainly comes in handy.

2 comments:

Girl Japan said...

Oh thank you for the tip-- I am a thesaurus whore.. but now that I can have this at arms length... thank you.

Nooh said...

Thought you might like this one, GJ!