Edited by Maurice Waite
300,000 entries
This thesaurus covers nearly one-third of a million alternative and opposite words. The most useful alternative word is given first, with words closest in meaning to the entry word given in capitals. Opposites and related terms are clearly marked, and thousands of example sentences help users select the right word. There is clear labelling of informal, dialect, literary, and technical words.
Maurice Waite studied linguistics, German, and Swahili before joining OUP in 1984. He worked on English learners' dictionaries, then German dictionaries, before moving to the English Dictionaries Department.
