What’s up with online thesaurus sites lately? Ones like thesaurus.com used to be great; for each word I’d enter, I’d be given over a dozen synonyms, as well as slang terms, antonyms, and figures of speech. Now I’m lucky to receive five results from a search.

What’s worse is that when I click on a synonym that is closer to the idea that I’m trying to find a word for, half the time there’s no listing at all for it! I’ll either be redirected to the word I’d originally entered or I’ll get a “Did you mean…?” page. That’s just useless.

I know that I shouldn’t depend on sites like that as a crutch, but they still provided a healthy exercise for my own vocabulary. It just disheartens me when I can think of several synonyms to a word myself that the database at thesaurus.com failed to consider.

Oh, and for the curious, typing in “synonym” into the search will not cause an explosive feedback loop, as I would expect.

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