Someone who repeatedly uses large, complicated words when only the basic word is required and/or jumbles up words together that don't have the same meaning as intended. (Attempting to sound smarter than they actually are.)
Prof: Now who can explain the theory?
Student: I obtain the ability!
Prof: Okay Michelle, go ahead.
Student: I have high doubts in the cognitive processes of this theorist as he continually demostrates excavating premonitions about the ongoing insanities of the homo sapien population. His theory contradicts all predescendant foreknowledge.
Prof: Well now class, we seem to have a thesaurus bitch in our midst.
Student: I obtain the ability!
Prof: Okay Michelle, go ahead.
Student: I have high doubts in the cognitive processes of this theorist as he continually demostrates excavating premonitions about the ongoing insanities of the homo sapien population. His theory contradicts all predescendant foreknowledge.
Prof: Well now class, we seem to have a thesaurus bitch in our midst.
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One who attempts to sound intelligent by using a computer thesaurus for more intelligent sounding words.
Ends up sounding ridiculous either by using words completely out of context or by misspelling them.
Ends up sounding ridiculous either by using words completely out of context or by misspelling them.
by srta. P May 24, 2005
Get the thesaurus abuser 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
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watch out. very dangerous
watch out. very dangerous
by ojpimpjuice69 April 8, 2009
Get the thesaurus rex 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".
by Ceylon March 4, 2010
Get the Theasaurus mug.The use of "big" words in lieu of their "common" counterparts (often out of context) in a futile attempt to sound more intelligent. This technique is often used by liberal arts students when attempting to sound competent when talking about a subject that they have no clue about.
In a class room discussion about UrbanDictionary.com
Jill: Urban Dictionary's abominable nature not only proliferates the use of exiguous, diminutive, colloquial English, it actually bolsters and espouses it!
Jack: ya, and it gives us words like thesaurus rape to describe what you are doing!!
Jill: Urban Dictionary's abominable nature not only proliferates the use of exiguous, diminutive, colloquial English, it actually bolsters and espouses it!
Jack: ya, and it gives us words like thesaurus rape to describe what you are doing!!
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