Dictionary.com VS Power Thesaurus

Dictionary.com Reviews

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Dictionary.com mentions (877)

• What's Going on with 'Nonplussed'?

  American Heritage is much better. They respond to usage, but much more conservatively. And their entries will actually have brief explanations from their "usage panel" about ambiguous or changing meanings. https://dictionary.com. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Sam Harris #1 quote about Free Will

  I don't know what to say. The act of making a choice is just to "select from two or more possibilities," as dictionary.com puts it. We do that. Cats and dogs and birds do that. Single cell amoebas do that. Trees can even be said to do that. And certainly computers do that. Even the problem Sam Harris is stating above is in the form of an if-then statement, the fundamental conditional statement upon which... Source: 5 months ago

• Was beast mode weaker then robot mode?

  Yeah, here's what dictionary.com says about the phrase's origins:. Source: 5 months ago

• Hanging vines

  My wife set up a bunch of her mature vines hanging down from our entrance staircase (both sides). On the left is about a five year old String of Hearts, then Monstera (only a couple of years old), then Pothos (about five years old). The String of Hearts is about 10 feet long, but seems to still get nutrients and moisture to the end. The pothoses (strangely, that is what dictionary.com says is the plural of... Source: 5 months ago

• what's the meaning of imminent

  This word is very interesting. I came across it in a comic. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's definition seems like a synonym of immediate, but dictionary.com's definition seems more suitable for the comic. Source: 8 months ago

Power Thesaurus mentions (4)

• [TOMT] [WORD] Word that means grief and anger

  I also teach ESLs and we refer to powerthesaurus.org to build vocabulary. It is more useful and faster than Googling and has everything you need for a quick reference. Source: over 1 year ago

• creative, and less harmful than "stupid"

  Here are the words I've pulled from powerthesaurus.org that are acceptable to me. Foolish Unintelligent Daft Thick Obtuse Fautous Preposterous Vacuous Goofy Pointless Unwise Doltish Thoughtless Nutty. Source: over 1 year ago

• Scared and mad and mostly scared but also stupid

  All this time I spent worrying over the fact that it feels like I have no time, yet I spent 20 minutes writing this and I can't remember what point I was trying to make in the first place. Would you believe me if I said I googled a few words and went on powerthesaurus.org just to make sure I didn't sound stupid? Well I'm done now good day. Source: about 2 years ago

• What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

  For people who write a lot, I love Power Thesaurus. Source: over 2 years ago