To use the thesaurus for every second word in order to make yourself sound smarter or to take up space and make an essay longer.
Teachers see past it very quickly if you are a dumbfuck and can't tell him what half the words in your essay mean, when questioned.
Teachers see past it very quickly if you are a dumbfuck and can't tell him what half the words in your essay mean, when questioned.
"I thesaurused this essay to death"
"I walked slowly down the street to school" becomes "I sauntered languorously down the boulevard to the establishment of education" (this is overly thesaurused)
"I walked slowly down the street to school" becomes "I sauntered languorously down the boulevard to the establishment of education" (this is overly thesaurused)
by Hayat Neralcm November 18, 2005
Get the Thesaurused mug.N. Describes the fairly common occurrence amongst literate types, in which two synonymous or near-synonymous words are spoken somewhat atop each other, resulting in the creation of such phrases as "dramastic", "grood," and "for suretain." While these phrases have been used intentionally, true thesauric collisions only result from accidental construction of such phrases.
While Leeroy was at the cocktail party, he accidentally subjected the words "sweet" and "nice" to a thesauric collision, and thus told the Swedish ambassador to the UN that his expensive new martini glass was "swice."
by TerraForce October 22, 2006
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The dinosaur god, or the lord of all the great lizards. A unique specimen, the skeleton of which has never been found, but the image of which appears in many of the earliest cave paintings, depicted as a giant bearded lizard seated on a cloud or floating in a celestial environment.
Early Brontosauri used to raise their heads and low to the sky in praise of the mighty Theosaurus.
Later Brontosauri built piles of rubble in homage to him.
So we assume...
Later Brontosauri built piles of rubble in homage to him.
So we assume...
by thesvenhunter April 24, 2006
Get the Theosaurus mug.the most awesome animal that ever walked the planet, there is only one in existance, extremely rare to find
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Get the tiasaurus mug.1.A synonym for a real word, created either by mistake or on purpose, that doesn't exist in the English language. While bastardizing the English language, the words created sound like they could be in fact real words, but cannot be found, unless created.
2. Words being changed by type, such as nouns into verbs, and nouns into adjectives, and vice-versa. Can also be know as nouning.
2. Words being changed by type, such as nouns into verbs, and nouns into adjectives, and vice-versa. Can also be know as nouning.
Thesauratical Rerepresentation
1. The hidiousy (amount of hidious) of that girl made doing her impossible.
2. "Packing that moving van was hard, but I managed to 'Tetris' everything into it."
1. The hidiousy (amount of hidious) of that girl made doing her impossible.
2. "Packing that moving van was hard, but I managed to 'Tetris' everything into it."
by BobtheHuman July 8, 2012
Get the Thesauratical Rerepresentation mug.When someone overuses a thesaurus in an essay or speech to make themselves sound smarter. However, by replacing small words with obscure words they don't really understand, it just makes them sound pretentious and stupid.
But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.
Blood libel? Purport? Looks like Sarah Palin suffers from thesaurusitis.
Blood libel? Purport? Looks like Sarah Palin suffers from thesaurusitis.
by Joyu January 16, 2011
Get the Thesaurusitis mug.Theasaurus was not a true dinosaur. It lived long after most dinosaurs and fed on the spare time of the verbose. But mostly, it had trouble spelling and pronouncing the word "thesaurus".
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