![]() That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). ![]() For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". ![]() It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. ![]() The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. ![]()
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