Last year, I noticed that the version of Roget’s New Millenium Thesaurus used by thesaurus.com listed conservative as a synonym for bigoted.

I contacted the editor of the thesaurus who assured me that it was merely an oversight and would be corrected in a future version.

Well, apparently the bigot who runs Brain Terminal was successful, because I checked recently and saw that conservative is no longer listed as a synonym for bigoted.

It looks like there’s more work to do, though: conservative is still listed as a synonym for intolerant (right after communist, oddly) and narrow-minded, while under the entry for conservative, these choice synonyms are among those listed:

bitter-ender, fearful, fogyish, fossil, fuddy-duddy, inflexible, obstructionist, old fogy, reactionary, red-neck, stick-in-the-mud, timid, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, white bread

Thanks, Roget’s! My compliments to you, too!

My call to editor Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD had some effect last year, but given the amount of work that remains to be done, it looks like I’ll need reinforcements.