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... acceptable adept advantageous ample angelic angelical bang-up beatific beneficial beneficial best ...

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... able to pay absolutely acceptable accomplished according to hoyle ace actual adept adequate admirable admissible adroit advantage advantageous ...

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... able to pay absolutely acceptable acceptable accomplished according to hoyle ace actual adept adept adequate admirable admissible adroit advantage advantageous advantageous advisable affable affectionate agreeable all right all-knowing all-powerful ...