thesaurus (and also dictionary)
Project description
Thesaurus Rex
It's a command-line thesaurus tool that fetches a word's homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms from Thesaurus.com via HTTP requests, CSS selectors, regular expressions, and JSON. It's also a dictionary tool that fetches definitions from Webster
Installation
- from PyPI:
pip install thesr
- from GitHub:
pip install "git+https://github.com/treatmesubj/Thesaurus_Rex
Usage
python -m thesr.thesr [-h] [--word WORD] [--define | --antonyms | --verbose]
If you call thesr
without a word argument, it'll fetch a random word from Webster's recent words of the day and fetch its synonyms & antonyms
Common English phrases can be defined and return synonyms as well. Pass the hyphenated phrase as an argument to thesr like so: thesr tongue-and-cheek -d
or thesr dime-a-dozen
. Webster seems to have sufficient documentation for common idioms and phrases while Thesaurus.com does too, but to a lesser extent.
An argument that yields neither synonyms nor a definition is likely misspelled and will return a list of potentially intended words.
john@spectre:~
$ python -m thesr.thesr. --word purport --verbose
_____ _
|_ _| |
| | | |__ ___ ___ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ ___
| | | '_ \ / _ \/ __|/ _` | | | | '__| | | / __|
| | | | | | __/\__ \ (_| | |_| | | | |_| \__ \
|_| |_| |_|\___||___/\__,_|\__,_|_| \__,_|___/ Rex
[purport!]
---Synonyms-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ noun: meaning, implication } ==> ['acceptation', 'aim', 'bearing', 'burden', 'connotation', 'core', 'design', 'drift', 'gist', 'heart']
{ verb: assert, mean } ==> ['imply', 'pose as', 'pretend', 'profess', 'allege', 'betoken', 'claim', 'convey', 'declare', 'denote']
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---Definitions-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ verb: to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) }
{ verb: claim }
{ verb: intend, purpose }
{ noun: meaning conveyed, professed, or implied : import }
{ noun: substance, gist }
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---Antonyms-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ noun: meaning, implication } =/=> ['exterior', 'exteriority', 'insignificance', 'meaninglessness', 'outside', 'surface']
{ verb: assert, mean } =/=> ['conceal', 'deny', 'disclaim', 'hide']
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