Nisus Thesaurus App Reviews

Great app. For work, school or blooging. It really gives a wide variety of words you can use. I cannot beleive that such a good reference tool can be free. Even if it wouldnt be free it is a great tool. A must have for people who need to write any kind of document/paper, note, etc. Thank you.

I have been using Nisus Thesaurus for many years in my writing, copyediting, and translation gigs. It is as indespensible as any good dictionary and it speeds up my work a great deal.

This cant be your only thesaurus if youre interested in genuinely exploring the words behind a concept thats on the tip of your brain. A few common words have a nice range of suggestions, but it wasnt the kind of broad spectrum of esoteric associations implied in the picture for what Ive tried so far. Ex: "Critical = decisive, vital" … If either of those were helpful then its seriously unlikely that a thesaurus is going to make the difference in polishing up whatever it is youre writing. I wish I could be more specific, but I cant find the words. If only I had good thesaurus. :-/

This is a great app. I use it for my writing and it has come in useful in many ways. It tells me different options for the word, for instance, if I were to type in tape it would give me all of the different uses of the word and the definition. Like I said, this is a great app, and it has saved a few of my books from rejection. This is my new best friend. = D Thank you for this app. I cant believe its free.

Great app! Should be charging for it!!

A simple interface that allows you to explore more specific and general word alternatives. This is the best thesaurus Ive ever used.

Some words seem to have their entries fully in place, but others are nearly blank. I looked up “protective” and the only word that came up was the antonym “unprotective.” What about sheltering, sheilding, guarding… etc? It’s almost as if some of the entries are unfinished or deleted.

complete waste of time

Nisus Thesaurus has several features that make it the best choice for non-native speakers. The old-fashioned style of thesaurus is not very helpful for English learners because they typically dont know the meaning of the suggested synonyms and so end up choosing a word that doesnt make sense for their particular context. Nisus Thesaurus, on the other hand, provides a list of possible meanings for the word you look up, and then makes it clear which synonyms are appropriate for which definition. Even better, it lets you choose more specific or more general synonyms, so a non-native speaker can avoid choosing a word with an overly narrow meaning. I have recommended this thesaurus to my international students, but I was disappointed to discover that they cant use it on their smartphones. Please make this thesaurus available as an app for iPhone and iPad!!!!!!

After you install Nisus Thesaurus you have to figure out how to access it! In most Mac Apps simply selecting the text and right clicking on it and choosing “Services” > “Look up selection in Thesaurus” to access. You can also access under the apps name in the menu bar, and select services to see the same thing. If you love working with words then this is a great app! It really has some cool filtering not found in Chambers Thesaurus or SynMap. Thanks Nisus!

Nisus Thesaurus relates words by concept more than by equivalence. For example, Looking up "intelligent" provides pathways to words related to "reasoning," "thinking," and "well-informed," plus "healthy," "level-headed," and "sound," the final one being good judgement. The software benefits writers by suggesting alternative ways of viewing and understanding their research and ideas. If you just want different ways of saying things, you might consider the excellent Oxford dictionary and thesaurus built into Mac OS X. Nisus Thesaurus uses the WordNet database from Princeton University. It is an incredible tool for helping you create and refine your writing. Use it alongside a traditional more thesaurus to enrich your communication skills. In defense of Nisus, from a marketing point of view, calling it a thesaurus makes sense, but it is more than a synonym finder.

When I am translating documents, I use the thesaurus all the time to help me find words that are as specific as the original. The thesaurus included in the Mac OS is not up to the job, so I wanted an alternative. Sadly, this is not it. I found the interface to be extremely annoying, and there were a lot of words that didn’t show up at all, or at most had a “related” word (for example, I tried “stretchy”. A thesaurus should list elastic, flexible, pliable, etc… Nisus didn’t have any of those). If you are a serious writer, I think the only alternative is to use MS Word, which has a built-in, off-line thesaurus that is ten times as useful as this one, offering more words, and dropping your choice directly into the text.

Limited and gives you rubbish synonyms! like the synonim to “assassin”=to “Muslim”…speechless!!!!