thesaurus-rs

The offline thesaurus library for Rust that can use both wordnet and moby backends.

Add to Cargo.toml for wordnet: toml thesaurus = "0.5"

Add to Cargo.toml for moby (wordnet is on by default): toml thesaurus = { version = "0.5", features = ["moby"], default_features = false }

Backend Comparison

Name | Simple Example Binary Size | Simple Example Binary Size (Stripped) | Available Words | Average Number of Synonyms | Compressed Dictionary Size | License ---|---|---|---|---|---|--- Moby | 15M | 11M | 30159 | 83.287 | 11M | US Public Domain Wordnet | 6.9M | 3.4M | 125701 | 3.394 | 2.9M | Wordnet License

Basic Example

```rust use std::{env, process};

fn main() { let args = env::args().collect::>();

let word: String = match args.get(1) {
    Some(word) => word.to_string(),
    None => {
        eprintln!("Must include a word as an argument");
        process::exit(1);
    }
};

let synonyms = thesaurus::synonyms(&word);
let num_words = thesaurus::dict().len();

cfg_if::cfg_if! {
    if #[cfg(all(feature = "moby", feature = "wordnet"))] {
        print!("both wordnet and moby have ");
    } else if #[cfg(feature = "moby")] {
        print!("moby has ");
    } else if #[cfg(feature = "wordnet")] {
        print!("wordnet has ");
    }
}

println!("{num_words} words indexed, and {} synonyms for \"{word}\"...", synonyms.len());
println!("synonyms...");
for x in &synonyms {
    println!("   {x}");
}

} ```

Wordnet Output

shell $ cargo r -rq --example simple -- good

wordnet has 125701 words indexed, and 107 synonyms for "good"... synonyms... skilled skilful practiced skillful expert adept proficient sainted ...

Moby Output

shell $ cargo r -rq --example simple --no-default-features --features=moby -- good

moby has 30195 words indexed, and 666 synonyms for "good"... synonyms... christian christlike christly daedalian god-fearing ok roger sunday able to pay absolutely acceptable ...

Both

shell $ cargo r -rq --example simple --features=moby,wordnet -- good

both wordnet and moby have 132592 words indexed, and 773 synonyms for "good"... synonyms... christian christlike christly daedalian god-fearing ok roger sunday able to pay absolutely ...