Question #53: What Are The Best Online Dictionary And Thesaurus Resources?

Answer: The best website that we've found that has an online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia, let us explain them.

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The Best Online Dictionary And Thesaurus Resources Is…

In our opinion the best free online dictionary is www.Dictionary.com.

When you go there you’ll also get access to www.Thesaurus.com, www.Encyclopedia.com. Dictionary.com is very robust, because when you go there you’ll see all these free resources.

The way they make money is through advertising, so you can use their free resource and that’s where I go anytime I want to look up a word. Now, that’s the best free resource.

The best paid resource in my opinion is www.VisualThesaurus.com. When you go there you’ll find the coolest way to look up words that are related.  It’s this little system, if you want to use it you can use it for free and you can type in the box that says look up a word and then just look it up.

If you don’t have the software it will download it very quickly for you.  The reason I love Visual Thesaurus is because, whether you're a visual or non-visual person you’ll see all the related words spatially.

You don’t see it linearly like a reference guide gives you.  You're given words linearly, here’s the synonym and here’s the antonym.

With Visual Thesaurus it’s only $20 a year.  I highly recommend you get it.  You can even get the CD version if you want to pay a little more.  For $20 it’s worth it to get Visual Thesaurus and you’ll be a better writer, wordsmith, copywriter and salesperson.

Just hanging out there for five minutes a day you will find your vocabulary will expand.  I do this with my children, myself and it works.

Dictionary.com, and there you get access to Thesaurus.com, which is also free, and then there’s a web guide as well.

I highly recommend that you go to Dictionary.com and you can even register. They have word of the day, blogs, other languages; it’s such a robust resource for you and it’s a very high page rank so they get a lot of traffic.

Dictionary.com is the free resource; Visual Thesaurus is the paid one. And for $20 a year it’s worth it.

That’s the best online dictionary, thesaurus and other resources.  You no longer need an encyclopedia. You have your desktop and the Internet; you got it all.