Wednesday 20 August 2008

pondering over .....

Why do we need synonyms and antonyms for almost all the words (leaving apart prepositions, proper nouns etc etc grammar words ) ? Isn't simpler the better?

3 comments:

Stupidosaur said...

???I did not understnd the question and its relation to the first sentence.

WritingsForLife said...

Good point...i think man continues to make life complicated and think that it would make him happy and he would attain satisfaction--- if only he could go in the opposite direction he would be so much more satisfied. :-)

chinmai said...

@saur: i meant that why do v need many words meaning the same thing for e.g. word "great " has
Synonym Collection
Main Entry: great
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms: admirable, countless, distinguished, egregious, eminent, enormous, estimable, excellent, excessive, exorbitant, fabulous, famed, famous, flagrant, gigantic, grand, grievous, huge, illustrious, immense, immoderate, incalculable, incomputable, large, magnanimous, monumental, noted, numerous, predominant, preeminent, prodigious, prominent, renowned, serious, supereminent, superior, transcendent
(courtsey : dictionary.com)

@raaji : quite true, we many a times complicate things unnecessarily.