Timeline for Looking for a collection of alternate words - not a thesaurus
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| Feb 29, 2016 at 3:39 | comment | added | Mitch | If you look at a dictionary, an entry fro a word should give its extensions with suffixes (most likely not prefixes). But maybe that's not so easy to see. It's a little more obvious if you just look at a plain online wordlist (like /usr/share/dict/words). | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 23:02 | comment | added | user867 | You're looking for something like a dictionary. What went wrong when you tried using a dictionary? (Knowing why a dictionary is insufficient for your needs may help us zero in on exactly what you need.) | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 22:15 | history | edited | herisson |
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| Jan 13, 2015 at 12:03 | comment | added | SinisterBeard | A bit more Googling reveals what I'm actually after is "parts of speech" - Moby thesaurus seems to have this covered. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 11:56 | comment | added | SinisterBeard | Yes, that's more accurate - this is why I'm struggling to find anything! | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Do you mean "related words"? Terribly is not an alternate for terrible in most senses, in most dialects. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 11:14 | answer | added | Lior Kogan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 11:07 | history | asked | SinisterBeard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |