https://github.com/agmmnn/syn

🌾 Get synonyms and antonyms of words from Thesaurus.com and other sources in your terminal, with rich output.
https://github.com/agmmnn/syn

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🌾 Get synonyms and antonyms of words from Thesaurus.com and other sources in your terminal, with rich output.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/agmmnn/syn
• Owner: agmmnn
• Created: 2021-09-21T12:02:19.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-08T14:28:51.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T12:45:44.334Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: cli, command-line, datamuse, dictionary, linguistics, python, rich, synonyms, terminal, thesaurus, wordsearch
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/synonym-cli/
• Size: 144 KB
• Stars: 31
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# 🌾 syn

Get synonyms and antonyms of words from [Thesaurus.com](https://www.thesaurus.com/), [Datamuse API](https://www.datamuse.com/api/) and [AlterVista](https://thesaurus.altervista.org/) in your terminal, with [rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich) output.

# Install:

```

pip install synonym-cli

```

## Usage:

```

syn 

```

### Explore Mode

Returns more particular results about the given word. Uses [Datamuse API](https://www.datamuse.com/api/).

> for Web UI: https://wordwhisper.vercel.app

`$ syn dominant -d`

![](https://github.com/agmmnn/syn/assets/16024979/a9ba9df5-bad0-421a-abea-163d11c37f1d)

### Other Languages

For other languages you can use `--lang`, `-l` command. To use this feature, you need to get an api key from [here](https://thesaurus.altervista.org/openapi).

`$ syn -l fr belle`

![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16024979/209144768-0cde6709-65d9-4142-9eae-bb4bc38e4a13.png)

`$ syn -l ru фраза`

![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16024979/209144765-abca9b54-5495-4295-98f7-15acdbde7623.png)

> AlterVista's Thesaurus API supports the following languages:

> Czech: `cs`, Danish: `da`, English (US): `en`, French: `fr`, German (Germany): `de`, German (Switzerland): `de`, Greek: `el`, Hungarian: `hu`, Italian: `it`, Norwegian: `no`, Polish: `pl`, Portuguese: `pt`, Romanian: `ro`, Russian: `ru`, Slovak: `sk`, Spanish: `es`.

### Set Default Language

You can set the default language with the `--setlang ` argument, so you don't have to give the `-l` argument every time.

```

$ syn --setlang fr

> default language is: fr

$ syn belle

> ...

```

## Arguments

```

  -h, --help      show this help message and exit

  -p, --plain     returns plain text output

  -l, --lang      

  --setkey        set apikey for altervista api

  --setlang       set default language (currently default is 'en')

  --show          show settings file

  -v, --version   show program's version number and exit

```

# Contrubuting

Contributions are welcome. If you want to contribute to this list send a pull request or just open a new issue.