# Visual Thesaurus on line
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 29, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127 "2003-06-29T08:15:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/1 "2003-06-29T08:15:23Z")
I just had to share this very cool website.
[http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html](http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html)
Type in a word, and it gives you a spiderlike representation of that word’s relationships to antonyms, synonyms and related words. Click on the other words, and the field shifts to center around the new word.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/2 "2003-06-29T09:34:38Z")
I was posting a reply saying that is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, but it turned out the boards were undergoing daily maintenance so it didn’t get through.
Then I went back to the visual thesaurus and put my name in (Peter) and got a spider with ‘Tool’ ‘Dick’ ‘Cock’ ‘pecker’ ‘prick’. What is it trying to say!?
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### Author:  [@universe.zip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/universe.zip)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/3 "2003-06-29T11:34:04Z")
OMG, I think I´m in love!
This is just about the coolest Thesaurus I´ve ever seen, and believe me, I _work_ with them things.
Great design! Though I must agree with **Lobsang** - it does have a tendency to turn naughty - or is it just me?
It got me from “toss” to “orgy” in five easy steps, and from “translation” to “roll in the hay” in fourteen… 😃
Thanks for sharing, **Mariemarie** , this is great!
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/4 "2003-06-29T11:57:00Z")
Maybe you should send this to TubaDiva, for a Weird Earl? \
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### Author:  [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/5 "2003-06-29T14:45:44Z")
OOOh! More features I hadn’t noticed at first:
Try words like **light, fire, black** – words that have many meanings. Watch the new words spring into existence like the genesis of a galaxy! Pretty!
Okay. Now click-and-hold on the center word: you can drag it around like spaghetti on a plate! Impressive…
One more: Click-and-hold anywhere in the white space. The whole conglomeration rotates in 3-space, bringing the distant objects to the fore…
Cool! Keen! Peachy! Bully! Bang-up! Smashing! Nifty! Groovy! Swell! Dandy! Cracking! Corking! and Not Bad!
[To be fair, just, and sporting, I found this link on these fellows’ website: **[The Taters](http://www.burnttaters.com/index.htm)**. Excellent band.]
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/6 "2003-06-29T16:12:01Z")
Way too cool. I started by adding it to favorites on this (home) machine; then emailed it to myself at work so I can share it with my puzzle editors; then emailed it to half the people in my address book here.
Way, way too cool.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/7 "2003-06-29T22:19:00Z")
One unexpected thing that’s cool about it is how it behaves on different connection speeds. On a dialup modem it grows slowly and gracefully. On broadband it bursts into life.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-thesaurus-on-line/185127/8 "2003-06-30T01:09:20Z")
OH
MY
GOD
Put ‘colored’ in!