Description:For over fifty years Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms has been an invaluable reference work for students, readers, and writers. It supplies all the synonyms, antonyms, and related words that a thesaurus does, but it goes beyond a thesaurus; it tells just how the words differ, intakes clear their various shades of meaning, explains their distinctions, and suggests nuances that the writer and reader need to know. This edition has been revised and expanded to include slang; colloquialisms, arid British equivalents of American words. For maximum convenience, the entries are listed alphabetically and art fully cross-referenced.