Wordy

Find synonyms and more using the Datamuse API. This is an Obsidian plugin.

Demo

Usage

Select a word, run the Wordy: Synonyms command, find a replacement. Current commands are

• Wordy: Synonyms — Find words that have a similiar meaning
• Wordy: Rhymes — Find rhymes for a highlighted word
• Wordy: Alliterative Synonyms — Find alliterative synonyms. Run on food and transform Good food to Good grub
• Wordy: Antonyms — Find words that mean the opposite of the highlighted word

Tip: Set a hotkey for this command.

Changelog

1.1.0

• Adds Wordy: Alliterative Synonyms command. good food to good grub
• Adds Wordy: Rhymes command.

  1.0.1

• Adds Wordy: Antonyms command.
• Code refactoring and strict typescript enabled.

  0.1.0

• Adds Wordy: Synonyms command to the palette. Select a word and run the command to pull up synonyms. This list includes hypernyms, hyponyms, holonyms and meronyms.

Roadmap

I like to write poetry. One day composing a text message poem I asked myself "What word starts with 'P' and is a synonym for 'Beauitful'?" Our goal is to map the Datamuse API in an aggregate way. For example, when searching for synonyms — hypernyms and homonyms are also included.

• [ ] Write e2e tests
• [ ] Means like
• [ ] Sounds like
• [ ] Spelled like
• [ ] jja Popular nouns modified by the given adjective, per Google Books Ngrams gradual → increase
• [ ] jjb Popular adjectives used to modify the given noun, per Google Books Ngrams beach → sandy
• [x] syn Synonyms (words contained within the same WordNet synset) ocean → sea
• [ ] trg "Triggers" (words that are statistically associated with the query word in the same piece of text.) cow → milking
• [x] ant Antonyms (per WordNet) late → early
• [x] spc "Kind of" (direct hypernyms, per WordNet) gondola → boat
• [x] gen "More general than" (direct hyponyms, per WordNet) boat → gondola
• [x] com "Comprises" (direct holonyms, per WordNet) car → accelerator
• [x] par "Part of" (direct meronyms, per WordNet) trunk → tree
• [ ] bga Frequent followers (w′ such that P(w′|w) ≥ 0.001, per Google Books Ngrams) wreak → havoc
• [ ] bgb Frequent predecessors (w′ such that P(w|w′) ≥ 0.001, per Google Books Ngrams) havoc → wreak
• [x] rhy Rhymes ("perfect" rhymes, per RhymeZone) spade → aid
• [x] nry Approximate rhymes (per RhymeZone) forest → chorus
• [x] hom Homophones (sound-alike words) course → coarse
• [x] cns Consonant match sample → simple
• [ ] topics Topic words: An optional hint to the system about the theme of the document being written
• [ ] md Metadata flags to determine additional lexigraphical data
  • [ ] Definitions
  • [ ] Parts of speech
  • [ ] Syllable count
  • [ ] Pronunciation
  • [ ] Word frequency