Okay my fellow writers, I need your help somethin’ fierce. I want a GOOD online thesaurus. All the popular ones are hopelessly tiny and rigid. I need thesauri that err on the side of too many options, rather than getting yet another one with a measly 15 synonyms. I will happily dive into 100+ synonym entries to get the perfect one; I get the itch of half-remembered words that would fit perfectly, and it won’t go away until I nail it exactly. Without acing the word-memory, I literally can’t write another sentence for hours as I scrabble to find THAT ONE WORD with all its perfect harmonious connotations and overtones.
I’m aware of how princess-and-the-pea this sounds but I cannot overstate how much of a trouble this is for me. I need about an hour of wasted effort to “warm up” each time I write, so hitting these verbal potholes costs me an hour plus search time. Currently the best I’ve found is http://thesaurus.babylon.com/constellation but you have to literally type in the word in your url, no internal links, so it’s a pain and I want to see if there are better options.
Does anyone have a thesaurus they swear by? Or an excessively voluminous one they hate that might have some use if tossed at me? My gratitude can be measured in baked goods.
