ADJECTIVE FINDER OR
REVERSE DICTIONARY OF ADJECTIVES SUMMARY OF CONCEPT AND LAYOUT
REVERSE DICTIONARY
OF ADJECTIVES OR ADJECTIVE FINDER
CONCEPT: To help
non-native speakers to get the word they want from the word they know.
ORGANISTION and
FORMAT: I am arriving at the required word by using a basic word which I term
as KEYWORD and as and when required supplementing it with connective
word/phrase, Then the required word is mentioned followed by a further
clarification with a brief meaning or explanation of the required word. So in
all there are four columns
Keyword Connective word ADJECTIVE Meaning
The criteria for the selection of the key word and connective word/phrase are:
1) Both must be simple and easily comprehensible.
2) Both must effectively lead to the required word.
3) Both must be highly relevant to the required word meaning wise i.e. the word
that would strike to a person requiring to express a particular thought,
description, emotion, action, event etc.
Thus the entry of required word would appear not only under the key word
connecting word combination but also under the reversed form wherein the
connective word would act as the keyword and the key word would become a
connective word. This ensures optimum user-friendly method wherein the user
gets at the word whether the keyword or the connecting word comes to his mind.
Format in four columns
keyword ,Connecting word , Adjective and Meaning
Pain ear OTALGIC UTI pain in the ear
Ear pain OTALGIC UTI pain in the ear
Pain ear due to noise DYSACOUSIC UTI pain in ear caused by noise
Noise cause pain in the ear DYSACOUSIC UTI pain in ear caused by noise
Ear pain caused by noise DYSACOUSIC UTI pain in ear caused by noise
Enclosing a sample entry for the word pain for your kind perusal.
ABBREVIATIONS USED:
1) UTI – Used to
indicate:
This I have arrived at after working for days together to find out a single
suitable simple expression to explain or define adjectives and doing away with
several introductory words/phrases used by dictionaries in defining adjectives,
a comprehensive list of 37 such words and phrases like ‘able to ,apt to,
capable of, pertaining to,’ etc are well compiled and mentioned by SIDNEY I
LANDOU in the book ‘Dictionaries: The art and craft of lexicography.’
2) N-for indicating all negations be it a noun bearing prefixes –non, -in,
etc or suffix –less, or for referring to contrary of an action or condition.
3) V-for indicating all intensities to avoid use of all the following terms
such as :very, too, excessive, enormous etc either before and/ or after the
noun or verb.
4) F-for indicating any fear or phobia.
5) S-for indicating any science, study, technique, art etc.
6) L-for indicating all likeness and avoid use of words like similar, shaped,
like , form etc.
TARGETED
READERSHIP, SCOPE, AND COVERAGE:
Primarily more useful for writers, journalists and teachers of English who are
especially non-native speakers of English as well as any avid learner of
English. It is basically useful for clearing the block caused due to want of
exact / appropriate word while expressing an idea or describing something.
WHAT IT DOES NOT
CONTAIN
It does not contain any encyclopedic, or linguistic or etymological information
or detailed definition or Pronunciation guide.
CONFESSION:
To be honest and candid, this work like any other dictionary is not independent
of its predecessors. In fact I have practically read several dictionaries as a
school boy would read a text book for exams. I was able to do so because I was
bedridden for some months due to a major accident. I will provide the
bibliography of the dictionaries and books that I have read for the preparation
of this work, if necessary later on.
NOTES PREPARED FOR
THE PRODUCTION OF THIS WORK
I was guarding almost 35000 sheets of paper I have written for the
preparation of this work but due to lack of space I had to destroy them.
SOURCE OF
INSPIRATION:
My loving parents especially my father whose range of vocabulary was something
that I always envied and my mother though she did not have much of formal
schooling could converse in several languages very fluently it was they who
inspired me to produce a work of this nature.
WHY ONLY ADJECTIVE
AND NOT NOUNS OF VERBS
In most of the dictionaries only a passing reference is made for adjectives
under a primary heading, definition or information of a verb or noun. Thus
adjectives have always received only a step motherly treatment . This in spite
of this fact that it is only the use of adjectives that embellish and flavor
any expression, narration or description.
I feel a dictionary must not only contain the potential raw materials for great
writings but must also be a potential source of inspiration for such writings.
WORDS NORMALY USED
FOR DESCRIBING OR DEFINING ADJECTIVES
1.Able to, 2.Apt to , 3.Associated
with, 4.Being , 5.Befitting , 6.Belonging to , 7.Capable
of
8.Characterized by , 9.Consisting of , 10.Denoting , 11.Describing ,
12.Designating , 13.Exhibiting
14.Expressing , 15.Expressive of , 16.For , 17.Fuel of , 18.Given
to , 19.Having, 20.Having the quality of
21.Having to do
with, 22.Inclined to, 23.Indicating, 24.Involving, 25.Like., 26.Likely to, 27.Made of
28.Marked by. 29.Of
, 30.Of the nature of, 31.Pertaining to, 32.Producing, 33.Relating to
34.Resembling, 35.Showing,
36.Tending to, 37.Used (for, with, in, etc)
Reverse
Dictionary of Adjectives Alphabetic Order Listing done after reading 40 plus Dictionaries and writing
down some 45,000 pages [ reference numbers are for cross entries made hence I
have not removed them].
In brief, on
a single page you can access millions of words through the links below
