Just the other day, I found out that very few people knows about a Thesaurus, let alone uses it. A great pity, because a Thesaurus is very useful.
You may ask what exactly is a Thesaurus? It’s actually a reference book in which words with similar meanings are grouped together. Of course, nowadays, you will find the Thesaurus on the Internet.
For example, we always talk of having a passion for our job. But have you thought of other words you can use in place of passion? A dictionary will only describe passion as “a very strong feeling about something”, “a strong interest for something” or “a strong belief in something” but beyond that, what are the alternative words you can use? Dictionaries are useless for this.
Try the online Thesaurus instead. These are the entries I saw:
affection, affectivity, agony, anger, animation, ardour, dedication, devotion, distress, dolour, eagerness, ecstasy, excitement, feeling, fervour, fire, fit, flare-up, frenzy, fury, heat, hurrah, indignation, intensity, ire, joy, misery, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, rage, rapture, resentment, sentiment, spirit, storm, suffering, temper, transport, vehemence, warmth, wrath, zeal, zest
adoration, affection, amorousness, amour, appetite, ardour, attachment, case, concupiscence, craving, crush, desire, emoting, eroticism, excitement, fondness, infatuation, itch, keenness, lust, mash, pash, prurience, the hots, urge, weakness, yen
bug, craving, craze, drive, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fascination, idol, infatuation, jazz, mania, obsession
admiration, amore, ardour, attachment, crush, devotion, esteem, estimation, exaltation, glorification, hankering, honour, idolatry, idolization, infatuation, mash, pash, passion, puppy love, reverence, shine, veneration, weakness, worship, worshipping, yen
amore, ardour, attachment, care, case, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering, heart, inclination, itch, kindness, liking, love, mash, pash, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love, regard, sentiment, shine, soft spot, solicitude, tenderness, tumtum, warmth, weakness, yen, zealousness
affliction, anguish, distress, dolour, misery, pangs, passion, throes, torment, torture, woe
appetite, ardour, aspiration, avidity, craving, desire, drive, eagerness, earnestness, emulation, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, hankering, hope, hunger, initiative, itch, keenness, longing, love, lust, moxie, passion, pretension, push, right stuff, spirit, striving, thirst, vigour, yearning, zeal
affair, entanglement, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship
acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blood of a bitch, blow up, cat fit, chagrin, choler, conniption, dander, disapprobation, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, huff, ill humour, ill temper, impatience, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, pet, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, slow burn, sore, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence
action, ardour, bounce, brio, briskness, buoyancy, dash, dynamism, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervour, gaiety, high spirits, life, oomph, passion, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vibrancy, vigour, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan
Imagine …. alternative words to describe almost everything that’s on your mind. If you are feeling at a loss for words when writing your next proposal or email content, get instant help from the Online Thesaurus.
But a word of warning. You’ll have to choose the words carefully and use them in the proper context or you may end up a cropper. So, give the Thesaurus a try. I’m sure you’ll love it.