no, I found all of those. The problem is not only that I didn't find the right word (by my standards) but that the pages seem overwhelmed by ads. The first one has a come-on "Answer this question to continue to read this page" and more! It's so incredibly cluttered, including distorted and ugly picture of Obama. My point was aesthetic.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I decided to google "toxin antonym" to find another word besides >> "medication" (which seems too long and grandiloquent). The answers are >> so overloaded with ads and come-ons that (at least on this front), the >> Web is edging toward uselessness. So I picked up Roget to get an >> answer. No luck so far. > > Huh? Here are my first five hits, and clicking on them, they all seem pretty > straightforward: > >> • Antonym of toxic | Synonym.com >> www.synonym.com/antonym/toxic/ >> Find the opposite of toxic using this online dictionary of antonyms. >> >> • Toxic Synonyms, Toxic Antonyms | Thesaurus.com >> thesaurus.com/browse/toxic >> Synonyms for toxic at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, >> and definitions. Dictionary and Word of the Day. >> >> • Toxin Synonyms, Toxin Antonyms | Thesaurus.com >> thesaurus.com/browse/toxin >> Synonyms for toxin at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, >> and definitions. Dictionary and Word of the Day. >> >> • Anti-toxin Synonyms, Anti-toxin Antonyms | Thesaurus.com >> thesaurus.com/browse/anti-toxin >> Synonyms for anti-toxin at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, >> antonyms, and definitions. Dictionary and Word of the Day. >> >> • Toxins Synonyms, Toxins Antonyms | Thesaurus.com >> thesaurus.com/browse/toxins >> Synonyms for toxins at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, >> and definitions. Dictionary and Word of the Day. > > I've got AdBlock, so I didn't see any ads, either. > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at the very least you should know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
