thesauritize

Verb: Meaning to elaborate on, or try to out-do your own or others' use of the english language.

" I fell, nay, PLUMMETED down the stairs last night."

or:

person one: "I really do have a problem."
person two: Yes thats quite the quandry. Conundrum even."
person one: "Did you just thesauritize me?"

by Rachel Hager January 9, 2008

thesaurize

To attempt to make your writing more formal and impressive by replacing simpler words with longer synonyms from a thesaurus

James thesaurized his résumé in hopes of landing a job with a higher salary

by call_me_xale September 20, 2015

thesaurusize

Taking a sentence from a (generally) published source and using a thesaurus to change the words so as to avoid plagiarism.

I used one of my earlier papers for this assignment, but thesaurusized it so no one would notice.

by ExaRox February 9, 2009

thesaurasize

To completely ruin an essay by referring to a thesaurus for every other word, thus inserting words that you don't really understand the definition of to make yourself appear smarter to the reader.

"Man, Julia's essay would have been amazing if she hadn't thesaurasized the damn thing. Now she just looks ignorant."

by StormInATeacup16x January 5, 2008

Thesauritis

When a person decides to improve his/her writing (essays, poetry, etc.) by looking up synonyms in a thesaurus and utilizing words that they think sound nice. In most cases, a person diagnosed with Thesauritis will use the words s/he found incorrectly - therefore making him/her look stupid in front of people with bigger vocabularies.

Thesauritis patient: "I besot you so profusely; all through the ignominious opprobrium and misconstrued paroxysms... my ventricles throb with plasma for you."

You: If you knew what those words meant, you wouldn't have said that.

by Waior December 27, 2009

Thesaurize

to find the synonym of a word in a Thesaurus. see also Dictionize

brohan i forgot what word means to attack for my essay, i wanna sound smart! oh shit man go Thesaurize it

by capŧaiin January 24, 2011

thesaurasize

To look up in a thesaurus.

I couldn't figure out another word for supercalifragilisticespiadaldoscious, I had to thesaurasize.

by Reinah June 10, 2005