Thesaurus Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Visual Thesaurus is a great tool for writers

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 14th, 2011)

After I wrote a post about the changes in Lion's Dictionary app and made suggestions about how Apple could still improve it, I got a nice email from a reader asking if I would write an article about some other writing tools I use. One of my favorites is Visual Thesaurus by Thinkmap. Visual ...

Dictionary.com for iPhone. Everyone should have it

by Mel Martin (Apr 9th, 2009)

Every so often a free app comes along for the iPhone/ iPod touch that I think everyone should have. That certainly applies to Dictionary.com [App Store link]. It's an iPhone version of the Dictionary.com web site which gives you definitions, a thesaurus, audio pronunciations, and my favorite, word ...

Mac 101: system-wide thesaurus at the touch of a hotkey

by Jason Clarke (May 10th, 2008)

As a Mac switcher, my Mac's built-in spelling and grammar checking has been a huge productivity boon for me. I'm someone who often gets stuck on a word, and since nothing's ever good enough for me, I've often wished that Leopard also included a built-in thesaurus. While that's not currently in the ...