I decided to look up “copyrite” using the Visual Thesaurus, in light of Thing 10 post. I was surprised to find only three related words, these being secure, procure and rights of first publication. Wanting to find a more popular word, and one with more results I randomly chose the word “paper,” which provided many more outcomes. A few words related to paper include: newspaper publisher, article, material, stuff and cover. “Paper” is the root word, and each word stems of off it alongside a colored circle which connects each related word. The root word can be related to many, and the words stemming from the root word can be related to other stemming words. It sounds confusing, but it’s really not.
Lexipedia is similar to the Visual Thesaurus, but it provided more results. I searched the word “school” and words like, schooltime, establishment, cultivate and knowledge popped up. I noticed that I could select certain parts of speech that I wanted to search. This site gave me the option to only search the nouns,, verbs, adverbs or adjectives, depending on my preferences and needs.
With all this being said, I really never found any desirable alternatives to my root word. Having something visual is fun to look at, but for this particular tool the visual aspect was not that helpful. I’m a huge fan of Thesaurus.com, so much so that the site is my homepage on my laptop. I use the site constantly. Comparing Thesarus.com to the Visual Thesaurus, I would say that the latter is more useful to me. Thesaurus.com provides many more results, and when I’m strapped for time or have writers block, more results means more ideas to get my brain moving again.
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