| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The gist of a specific action or situation: idea, import, point, purport, significance, significancy. See MEANING. 2. What one intends to do or achieve: aim, ambition, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, point, purpose, target, view, why. Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore. See PLANNED, PURPOSE. 3. That which is signified by a word or expression: acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, message, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, value. See MEANING. 4. The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse: aim, burden2, drift, intent, purport, substance, tendency, tenor, thrust. See MEANING. | | ADJECTIVE: | Effectively conveying meaning, feeling, or mood: eloquent, expressive, meaningful, significant. See EXPRESS, SHOW.
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