Explore the English Thesaurus
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Expand your vocabulary two ways with the Cambridge English Thesaurus: look up thousands of synonyms and antonyms quickly, or go in-depth with hundreds of articles that explain the differences between words and phrases. You’ll get real-world examples of how they are used in both British and American English, in formal and informal language. Based on expert, original research on the unique Cambridge English Corpus, it’s ideal for anyone preparing for Cambridge Exams or IELTS.
Clear, simple explanations of the differences between near-synonyms
Thousands of real-life examples show how words and phrases are used in both British and American English, in both formal and informal language
Based on the Cambridge English Corpus — a database of over 2 billion words
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The Woxikon synonym database assists you in finding different words with the same or similar meaning, often called synonyms, as well as finding antonyms to express the opposite sense of a word.
SYNONYM → Synonymy
Synonymy is defined as a similarity in meaning, lexical resemblance and equality of two words. Therefore, words are synonyms if they have a similar or even same sense. Deriving from ancient Greek, the translation of the word "συνώνυμος" means "same-named".
Synonyms for the word "synonym" itself are synonymous, synonymic, synonymical, related in sense/meaning, corresponding, conterminous/conterminously and tantamount.
ANTONYM → Antonymy
In linguistics, antonymy describes words with principally opposite meanings. It consists of the Greek syllables "anti" meaning against and "onoma" meaning name. Antonymy denotes general contrarieties of two or more meanings occuring either as words, word groups or whole sentences. Antonyms are lexically defined by logical conclusions of issues. In other words, the majority of antonyms (like hot and cold) originate in the rules of logic.
Synonyms for the word "antonym" are antonymous, converse, oppositional/opposi
Wiktionary:Thesaurus
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For the word 'thesaurus', see thesaurus
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This is the main project page of Wiktionary Thesaurus, a Wiktionary subproject and a wiki namespace aiming at creating a thesaurus, a dictionary of synonyms, antonyms, and further semantically related terms such as hyponyms, hypernyms, meronyms, and holonyms. The project was formerly called Wikisaurus.
Please contribute your own thesaurus entries, or add to the existing thesaurus entries.
Purpose
- Purpose:
- To help people find words that they
- can't recall or
- don't know
- To help people explore the network of words
- To help people find words that they
- Semantic relations:
- Synonymy – same or similar meaning
- Antonymy – opposite meaning
- Hyponymy – narrower meaning, subclass
- Hypernymy – broader meaning, superclass
- Being an instance – being an example of the class, set membership
- Meronymy – part, such as wheel of a car
- Holonymy – whole, such as car of a wheel
- Users:
- Writers
- Managers
- Contributors to wikis
- Bloggers
- Writers of love letters
- Journal writers
The purpose of Wiktionary Thesaurus is to serve the role of an electronic thesaurus—a dictionary of synonyms, near-synonyms
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