Suburban Thesaurus

A book of synonyms for people who live in between a city and a farm.

"Can I use the urban dictionary to look up a synonym for the word catastrophic?" "No, you're in between a city and a farm, and a dictionary is not used for synonyms. Use this Suburban Thesaurus."

by NittanyLionFan_:) December 7, 2020

thesaurusification

unnecessarily overchecking words using a thesaurus to find words that make the writer look cleverer than they really are.

as a result, the writer looks somewhat ... silly

John's report is completely unreadable, so much thesaurusification.

by Akula October 18, 2009

Urban Dictionary Thesaurus

The exact same thing as Urban Dictionary's Dictionary.

John: I'm going to look up a word in the Urban Dictionary Thesaurus.
Mike: Why? It's the exact same as the dictionary version of the website.

by terraz August 11, 2012

thesaurus speech

When people use big words to impress people, but it's obvious they've just been reading through a dictionary or thesaurus.
Signs of thesaurus speech include wrong pronunciation, and grammatically incorrect use.

Did you hear that guy pronounce overzealous like "over-zeel-us?" "Yeah, Thesaurus speech is funny.

by XalexegX July 6, 2011

thesaurusize

To replace words in a sentence, phrase, or song with other words that mean the same thing. Implies poor results, or dumbing down. This is a common practice among hymnal editors of some denominations, who are apparently among the most clueless humans walking the earth.

There used to be an internal rhyme in the bridge, until the publishers thesaurusized it.

by Jay R July 1, 2005

Thesaurus

A very difficult word to pronounce. Usually ends up 'thathauruth' or a variant of it. However, one can easily overcome this obstacle by pronouncing the word very slowly. See thathafrath.

Alex: Hey, could you hand me the thethaur-... theth-.. the thing next to the dictionary?
John: The thesaurus?
Alex: ... yeah.

by AlexOfSpades November 18, 2014

Urban Thesaurus

There might as well be an urban thesaurus.

Urban thesaurus is where you go when you're not looking for a definition.

by Solid Mantis July 18, 2018