70 000 pronunciations, with pop-up hint pronunciation key.Search 290 000 words, compounds and derived forms.Over 130 000 synonym sets and 165 000 root words.Word relations: find antonyms, parts or types, less specific words, etc.Definitions and synonyms, including many compounds and proper nouns.The extensive up-to-date dictionary database features Option to hide (default) or flag vulgar and offensive related words.Configure for American, British, Canadian, Australian or Asian English.Import and export custom definitions and glossaries.Search for words in a large number of optional extra word lists.Links between sounds-like and often-confused words.Highlights commonly used widely-understood words.Clear text pronunciations with syllables.Add optional third-party dictionaries in separate tabs.Tab pages to quickly check web references.One-click look up from almost any program, including MS Word.Includes many names of places and people, with a concise definitions and related words.

You can also copy to the clipboard parts of definitions, all of the definitions, the selected related word, or all of the listed related words (or anagrams/words matching a pattern). If you are looking up a word from a document you are editing, you can select any word and press the “Replace” button to substitute a synonym. You can also export the list to a text editor, delete items, or delete the entire history list. WordWeb also builds a list words you’ve looked up, so you can go back and check you remember definitions. There’s a feature to randomly look one up as a way of helping you remember vocabulary. Use the bookmark feature to remember useful words. You can also import and export to common spreadsheet-format files. Select “New Definition” from the “Edit” menu to add a new word (or set of words) with definition. How many words can you make using the letters in “constitutional”? WordWeb Pro’s answer: 726! The screenshot shows another example.Įnter a word and you can find all straight and multiple word anagrams. For example search for “female fox” and it will find the definition of “vixen”. Use the “full text” button to search for text appearing in any definition. The screenshot shows what you’d get if you did a punctuation sensitive search in the optional “Compounds and Phrases” word list for phrases ending in “word”. You can also search a wide range of optional extra word lists using the Find Word window. Using the “Find Word” feature you can quickly find words matching a pattern. You can add your own technical glossaries (or list of company acronyms, etc) using the option on the “Glossaries” menu. You can also get optional third-party dictionaries, including the Oxford, Chambers and Collins dictionaries, shown on separate tabs like the web references. Wikipedia and some online dictionaries are installed by default. The list of tabs can be customized to use your favorite references. Each reference is on a separate tabbed page for easy cross-referencing. In addition to using the comprehensive English dictionary and thesaurus supplied, if you are online you can also search your choice of web references.

For example if you look at the similar words, maybe you’d like to see words that are more loosely similar: you can do this by pressing the “+” button, and go back again by pressing the “-” button. Related words also have “+” and “-” buttons to be more or less specific. You can also use the back and forward buttons. To see the definition for one of the related words double-click on the word. Browsing around related words is simple: click on the tabs for synonyms, antonyms, parts, part of, types, type of, similar, see also, and anagrams. To look at a particular sense you can click on the sense number. If you are looking for a particular part of speech you can click on the Noun, Verb, Adjective or Adverb buttons to show only the relevant synonyms and related words. Look up using Ctrl+Right click on a word in almost any program. WordWeb has the option to highlight widely used synonyms, great for helping you write clear easy-to-understand English. If you are editing a document you can select a synonym and replace the look-up word. The hotkey can be customized, or you can use a keyboard shortcut if you prefer. If you are online, with one extra click you can also search web references, for example Wikipedia. WordWeb Pro can look up words in virtually any program with just one click: just hold down the Ctrl key and right-click on the word.

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