Thesaural

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To attempt to make your writing more formal and impressive by replacing simpler words with longer synonyms from a thesaurus Urban Dictionary

When a person decides to improve his/her writing (essays, poetry, etc.) by looking up synonyms in a thesaurus and utilizing words that they think sound nice. In most cases, a person diagnosed with Thesauritis will use the words s/he found incorrectly - therefore making him/her look stupid in front of people with bigger vocabularies. Urban Dictionary

To find the synonym of a word in a Thesaurus. see also Dictionize Urban Dictionary

N. Describes the fairly common occurrence amongst literate types, in which two synonymous or near-synonymous words are spoken somewhat atop each other, resulting in the creation of such phrases as "dramastic", "grood," and "for suretain." While these phrases have been used intentionally, true thesauric collisions only result from accidental construction of such phrases. Urban Dictionary

When someone uses uncommon synonyms from a thesaurus at an opportune time either for strong comedic effect, to dramatically emphasize a point, or both. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to thesaural:
thesaurus, thesauri, theatral.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective thesaural:
relations, relationships, associations.

Words that sound like thesaural:
thesauri, therrell, thorell, maceral, thoral, kestrel, thesaurus, thistle, this girl, the source, the sword, mistral, desyrel, the cell, tesoro, tessera, coistrel, the real, the soul, thiara, the story, this here, the rule, thera, misrule, thora, rosaura, casera, macera, cassara, thornell, lustral, restoral, therell, estoril, estral, thecal, casara.