thesaurus-cli

A command line interface for Thesaurus.com


Keywords
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License
MIT
Install
pip install thesaurus-cli==1.0.1

Documentation

Thesaurus-cli

Ever had to search for that perfect splendid cromulent word? Faster and easier than a browser, this CLI is unquestionably, unconditionally, the superlative solution.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Python 3 and pip must be installed. They can be installed as follows:

apt-get install python3
apt-get install pip3

Other dependencies such as BeautifulSoup will be installed by pip.

Installing

Thesaurus-cli can be installed through pip:

pip install thesaurus-cli

Using

Thesaurus-cli takes a single argument, the word that is being searched. For example, to find synonyms for "well"

thesaurus well

You will be able to select a specific definition for the searched word

Definitions for well are the following:
    0) healthy
    1) lucky, fortunate
    2) happily, pleasantly; capably
    3) sufficiently
    4) water hole
Select a definition: 

After choosing one, you will receive a list of synonyms

Synonyms for healthy:
strong
together
...