Roget's Thesaurus

#527. Information

Nouns

information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge etc. 490; publicity etc. 531; data etc. 467. communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communique; representation, round robin, presentment. case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news etc. 532; return etc. (record) 551; account etc. (description) 594; statement etc. (affirmation) 535. mention; acquainting etc. v.; instruction etc. (teaching) 537; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness. informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy, newsmonger; messenger etc. 534; amicus curiae [Lat.]. valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum [Lat.]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary etc. (journey) 266. hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture etc. (indication) 550; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise; insinuation etc. (latency) 526. information theory. [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword [Comp.], quad word, paragraph, segment. [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.

Verbs

tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquaintance with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken; transmit. let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish etc. 531; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of. let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice; set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one in possession of; instruct etc. (teach) 537; direct the attention to etc. 457. announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an account; give an account etc. (describe) 594; state etc. (affirm) 535. [disclose inadvertently or reluctantly] let slip, blurt out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose etc. 529. show cause; explain etc. (interpret) 522. hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink etc. (indicate) 550; suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear. give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak volumes. undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse, disillusion one of. be informed of etc.; know etc. 490; learn etc. 539; get scent of, get wind of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand. come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears.

Adjectives

informed etc. v.; communique; reported etc. v.; published etc. 531. expressive etc. 516; explicit etc. (open) 525, (clear) 518; plain spoken etc., (artless) 703. nuncupative, nuncupatory; declaratory, expository; enunciative; communicative, communicatory.

Adverbs

from information received.

Phrases

a little bird told me; I heard it through the grapevine.

#527a. Correction

Nouns

correction. disillusionment etc. 616.

Verbs

correct, set right, set straight, put straight; undeceive; enlighten. show one one's error; point out an error, point out a fallacy; pick out an error, pick out the fallacy; open one's eyes. pick apart an argument, confutation etc. 479; reasoning etc. 476.

Adjectives

corrective.

Phrases

I stand corrected.