Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS IV DIVISION II SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED


516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning [Thing signified.] -- N. meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.

517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness -- N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness &c adj. † ; scrabble.

518. Intelligibility -- N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness &c adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking &c (manifestation) 525; precision &c 494; phonanta synetoisy [Gr.] ; a word to the wise.

519. Unintelligibility -- N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity † ; inconceivableness, vagueness &c adj.; obscurity; ambiguity &c 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty &c 475; perplexity &c (confusion) 59; spinosity † ; obscurum per obscurius [Lat.] ; mystification &c (concealment) 528; latency &c 526; transcendentalism.

520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness -- N. equivocalness &c adj.; double meaning &c 516; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre [Fr.] , pun, paragram † , calembour † , quibble, equivoque [Fr.] , anagram; conundrum &c (riddle) 533; play on words, word play &c (wit) 842; homonym, homonymy [Gramm.] ; amphiboly † , amphibology † ; ambilogy † , ambiloquy † .

521. Metaphor -- N. figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.] , way of speaking, colloquialism.

522. Interpretation -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c 516.

523. Misinterpretation -- N. misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation † , misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis † ; eisegesis † ; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake &c 495.

524. Interpreter -- N. interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer; demonstrator.