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OneLook Reverse Dictionary

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by Adam at 7:43 PM on December 18, 2005

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I don’t remember what link I followed to this little buried treasure, but I’m thrilled to have found it. The OneLook Reverse Dictionary is at least a dozen times more useful than a book of synonyms thesaurus, and faster to boot.

Most of the times I find myself reaching for a thesaurus, it’s not to find a word that means the same thing as another word. Instead, I tend to use them to find the word for a certain thing or concept by looking up related words and hoping for a match. Thesauri aren’t very well suited to such a task, which is where OneLook’s tool comes in very handy. It also offers some useful features for crossword puzzle junkies.

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  1. One more thing. The reverse dictionary helped me find my new favorite ironically-wordy synonym for “wordy”: sesquipedalian. It even has an amusingly apropos etymology.

    Yeah okay, so I’m a big dork.

    Comment by Adam Messinger — December 18, 2005 @ 7:58 pm

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