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Rogetian

Rogetian adjective: of or relating to Roget's Thesaurus, a widely-used English-language thesaurus created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869).

Adjective

Rogetian (comparative more Rogetian, superlative most Rogetian)

  1. Of or relating to Roget's Thesaurus, a widely-used English-language thesaurus created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869).
    • The Word Menu claims to provide more precise discriminatory information than a thesaurus of the Rogetian type in that it provides definitions (RHWWM:xv) as well as style/register labels (Ibid:xix).2011, Martin Stark, Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries, page 116

Forms of Rogetian

comparativemore Rogetian
superlativemost Rogetian

Origin of Rogetian

From Roget + -ian.

Questions about Rogetian

What does Rogetian mean?
Rogetian means of or relating to Roget's Thesaurus, a widely-used English-language thesaurus created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869).
What part of speech is Rogetian?
Rogetian is an adjective.

Words near Rogetian in the dictionary

  1. Rogersville
  2. roges
  3. Roget
  4. Roget's
  5. Rogeted
  6. Rogetian
  7. Rogeting
  8. Rogetism
  9. Rogetisms
  10. Rogets
  11. roggan

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