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thesauric

thesauric adjective: of or relating to a thesaurus or to synonyms.

Adjective

thesauric (comparative more thesauric, superlative most thesauric)

  1. Of or relating to a thesaurus or to synonyms.
    • Groupings in languages (Chinese, Sanskrit, Sumerian) where alphabetical dictionaries are ruled out by the nature of the script have been found to have thesauric properties[…]2005, Margaret Masterman, Yorick Wilks, Language, Cohesion and Form, page 135

Forms of thesauric

comparativemore thesauric
superlativemost thesauric

Origin of thesauric

From thesaurus + -ic.

Questions about thesauric

What does thesauric mean?
Thesauric means of or relating to a thesaurus or to synonyms.
What part of speech is thesauric?
Thesauric is an adjective.

Words near thesauric in the dictionary

  1. thersitical
  2. thesaural
  3. thesaurer
  4. thesaurers
  5. thesauri
  6. thesauric
  7. thesaurismosis
  8. thesaurismotic
  9. thesaurization
  10. thesaurize
  11. thesaurosis

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