Rogetian

English

Etymology

Roget +‎ -ian

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).
    • 2011, Martin Stark, Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries, page 116:
      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).
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