Get synonyms and antonyms of words from Thesaurus.com, Datamuse API and AlterVista in your terminal, with rich output.

pip install synonym-cli

syn <word>

Returns more particular results about the given word. Uses Datamuse API.

$ syn dominant -d

For other languages you can use --lang, -l command. To use this feature, you need to get an api key from here.

$ syn -l fr belle

$ syn -l ru фраза

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.

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

$ syn --setlang fr
> default language is: fr
$ syn belle
> ...

  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -p, --plain     returns plain text output
  -l, --lang      <language>
  --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

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