Let's say you’re drawing up a contract, and you run it through our Readability Report: You can use it in tandem with our Readability Report to help simplify your writing and replace needlessly complex words with simpler, easier to read alternatives. The Thesaurus Check isn’t just useful for fictional writing. Unfortunately, ProWritingAid’s Thesaurus Check won’t give you a description as good as "an almost breakfast-cereal air of health," but it will highlight your adjectives for you and suggest synonyms that might inspire some creative genius of your own.
Holly could have been described as "thin, yet healthy," but it just wouldn't have the same effect. For all her chic thinness she has an almost breakfast-cereal air of health. We get a look at her now for the first time. The girl walks briskly up the block in her low cut evening dress. Here’s how the screenplay for Breakfast at Tiffany’s describes Holly Golightly: Let’s take a look at the adjectives used to describe an iconic character. Use the Thesaurus Check to investigate the adjectives you use to describe your characters ProWritingAid’s Thesaurus Check won’t always do all of the work for you, but its category highlights will show you where to look to make quick changes that will make all the difference. Our thesaurus will offer more interesting alternatives. Some, like "pretty," have been used so often that they’ve lost all impact. Make Your Characters Leap Off the PageĪdjectives are at their best when they’re unexpected. The Thesaurus Check will help you out with this by suggesting alternatives. When you do use an adverb, you want it to be the right one. Sometimes, adverbs do their desired job of helping you intensify your verbs. He famously said that "the road to hell is paved with adverbs" – but we think his elaboration on this makes the most important point: Now we’ve covered the mechanics, let’s look at how the Thesaurus Check can help make your writing better. With ProWritingAid’s Thesaurus Check, you can cut down on your searching time by receiving suggestions that are relevant to what you are trying to say. Homonym or not, the meanings of words are altered by the words that surround them. Instead, your words cut right to the chase. Your reader doesn’t need to process the difference to get the meaning. In this rewrite, the meaning isn’t diluted by the repetition of one word that means two things. Susie was wealthier than Daniel, but he had lived a fuller life than she ever would. Here are the suggestions you get for the first "richer:"Īnd here are the different suggestions for the second:Īccepting those suggestions helps us get to the meaning of the sentence: ProWritingAid recognises which version of the word you are using and offers a relevant synonym. Here, "richer" means two slightly different things.
Susie was richer than Daniel, but he had lived a richer life than she ever would. This is particularly useful when looking at homonyms.
This means that, for many words, it will be able to suggest synonyms that are relevant to the context of your sentence. ProWritingAid’s thesaurus is always learning. So, that’s how the Thesaurus Check works – but why is it better than the other thesauruses out there? How Is ProWritingAid’s Thesaurus Different? If you decide you like the word as it is, you can either leave it highlighted, or hit "Ignore" (as above) to remove the highlight. You can select the most appropriate synonym from the list, and it will automatically replace the highlighted word. When you hover over a highlighted word in your manuscript, a suggestion box will appear containing synonyms, like this: To reveal those highlights, just click on the Eye again. For instance, if you want to focus on adverbs, you can hide feedback on adjectives, nouns, and verbs. If you decide you want to focus on one particular category in your editing session, you can hover over the other categories to bring up this menu:Ĭlick on the Eye symbol (as circled above) to hide the highlights for that category. This menu allows you to quickly pick out words you might want to revise and jump straight to them in your document. You don’t need to respond to every suggestion. When you click the dropdown arrow next to each category, you be able to see each individual word. To the left of the screen, there is a toolbar showing you how many of each type of word you have used. That’s a lot of highlights! But don’t worry: this is just a starting point. When you run the report, it looks like this: Each category has a different colour highlight, so you can distinguish them easily in your manuscript. The Thesaurus Check shows possible replacements for all of the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in your document.
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How to Use ProWritingAid’s Thesaurus Check
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