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"WordWeb is a free thesaurus/dictionary for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
that can be used from your word
processor or as a standalone program. It received the top five star
rating in its ZDNet review.
In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, WordWeb can
also find sets of related words
including
Antonyms - Words opposite in meaning, e.g. bright/dull
Hypernyms - Less specific words, e.g. jungle/forest
Hyponyms - More specific words, e.g. forest/jungle
Meronyms - Words which denote a part, e.g. tree/forest
Holonyms - Words for a collection, e.g. forest/tree
You can filter the synonyms by sense and by part of speech.
WordWeb matches case of synonyms, e.g. search for "pulpits" and WordWeb
finds "podia", "rostra",
"ambos", etc, search for "pulpit" and you will get the singular
synonyms.
WordWeb comes with a template file so you can use it directly from MS
Word 6,7 or 97, and macros for use
with AmiPro, Word Pro 96 and Word 2."
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