Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
524. [person who predicts by non-mystical (natural) means] predictor,
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prognosticator, forecaster; weather forecaster, weatherman. Phr. a
prophet is without honor in his own country; "you don't need a
weatherman to know which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan].
SECTION VII. CREATIVE THOUGHT
#514. Supposition.窶年. supposition, assumption, assumed position,
postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky
hypothesis, postulate, postulatum[Lat], theory; thesis, theorem; data;
proposition, position; proposal &c. (plan) 626; presumption &c.
(belief) 484; divination. conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation;
rough guess, shot, shot in the dark [coll.]; conjecturality[obs3];
surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation
(nearness) 197. inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion,
impression; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition,
loose suggestion. association of ideas, (analogy) 514a; metonym[Gram],
metonymy[Gram], simile (metaphor) 521. conceit, idea, thought; original
idea, invention (imagination) 515. V. suppose, conjecture, surmise,
suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise[obs3],
presuppose; assume, fancy, wis[obs3], take it; give a guess, speculate,
believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine
&c. 515. put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move,
make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a
suggestion, put forward conjecture. allude to, suggest, hint, put it
into one's head. suggest itself &c. (thought) 451; run in the head &c.
(memory) 505; marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether. Adj. supposing &c.
v.; given, mooted, postulatory[obs3]; assumed &c. v.; supposititious,
suppositive[obs3], suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural,
hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative;
suppositional. suggestive, allusive. Adv. if, if so be; an; on the
supposition &c. n.;ex hypothesi[Lat]; in the case, in the event of;
quasi, as if, provided; perhaps &c. (by possibility) 470; for aught one
knows.
#514a. Analogy窶年. analogy, association, association of ideas.
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metaphor &c. 521.
analogical thinking; free association; train of thought.
Adj. analogical.
#515. Imagination.窶年. imagination; originality; invention; fancy;
inspiration; verve. warm imagination, heated imagination, excited
imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery
imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination,
daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile
imagination, fancy. "mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest]. ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism,
castle-building. dreaming; phrensy[obs3], frenzy; ecstasy,
extasy[obs3]; calenture &c. (delirium) 503[obs3]; reverie, trance; day
dream, golden dream; somnambulism. conception, Vorstellung[Ger],
excogitation[obs3], "a fine frenzy"; cloudland[obs3], dreamland; flight
of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of
the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery. conceit, maggot, figment,
myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy,
fancy; whim, whimsey[obs3], whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance,
gest[obs3], geste[obs3], extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear,
nightmare. flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle
in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopia,
Atlantis[obs3], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester
John, kingdom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c. (novel) 594; Arabian
nights[obs3]; le pot au lait[Fr]; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope)
858[obs3]. illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision)
443; Fata Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423[Lat]; vapor &c. (cloud) 353;
stretch of the imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis[obs3].
idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus[obs3]; romancer, dreamer;
somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful
projector. V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream
of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name"
[Midsummer Night's Dream]. create, originate, devise, invent, coin,
fabricate; improvise, strike out something new. set one's wits to work;
strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains,
ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate[obs3];
brainstorm. give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination,
give fancy; indulge in reverie. visualize, envision, conjure up a
vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself,
figure to oneself; vorstellen[Ger]. float in the mind; suggest itself
&c. (thought) 451. Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben trovato[It]; air drawn,
airbuilt[obs3]. imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, inventive,
creative, fertile. romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic,
enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic. ideal, unreal; in the
clouds, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubsantial[obs3] &c. 4; illusory &c.
(fallacious) 495. fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological;
chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic,
fantastical[obs3]; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic[obs3]. Phr. "a
change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; aegri somnia
vana[Lat][obs3]; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum
[obs3][Latin][Horace]; "fancy light from fancy caught" [Tennyson];
"imagination rules the world" [Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope[Fr], le
jugement ne va que le pas[French]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore
[Latin][Lucretius]; tous songes sont mensonges[French]; Wahrheil und
Dichtung[German].
DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS
SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED
#516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning. [Thing signified.]窶年.
meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import,
purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
[important part of the meaning] substance; gist, essence, marrow,
spirit &c. 5. matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and
substance. general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning,
colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning,
natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true &c. (exact) 494 meaning,
honest &c. 543 meaning, prima facie &c. (manifest) 525 meaning[Lat];
letter of the law. literally; after acceptation. synonym; implication,
allusion &c. (latency) 526; suggestion &c. (information) 527; figure
of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c. (interpretation) 522. V. mean,
signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate,
bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude
to; drive at; involve &c. (latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm) 535.
understand by &c. (interpret) 522. Adj. meaning &c. v.; expressive,
suggestive, allusive; significant, significative[obs3],
significatory[obs3]; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with meaning.
declaratory &c. 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous;
tantamount &c. (equivalent) 27; implied &c. (latent) 526; explicit &c.
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