Visuwords is an online dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find word meanings and explore the association between different words.
When you search a word, all the associated words get displayed as nodes joined together to form a a network.
Hover over nodes to see the definition of the associated word or double-click to further expand the tree. You can grab any node and pull it away from the others to clarify connections.
Best of all, you can download Visuwords for free and use it on your server or intranet.
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Reader Comments
Visuwords slows down the browser. Another fast and lightweight service is available at link .
Written by Rohit on 06.23.08
Try looking up “Computer”.
Written by Ambuj Saxena on 06.23.08
Thanks for the information,Amit!!.
The design that appears when we search for a word is really cool!!.
Written by Rohit on 06.23.08
this is a perfect anatomy of english word.This Will help GMAT and GRE guys in preparng their exams..
Written by AboutOnlineTips on 06.23.08
This is nice tool, however tends to make your browser slow.
Written by RohitBlog on 06.23.08
This is developed using spring graph component using flex…
its a wonderful visualization…in flash…
Written by Mohammed Moyeen on 06.23.08
Its taking a lot of time to load. I have bookmarked it, it might come handy..
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 06.23.08
For my mind lexipedia more handy.
Written by Maxim on 06.23.08
It doesn’t look that great. Try searching for ‘develop’ and it shows up many words showing ‘develop’. Surely what you not expected.
I prefer the software – Visual Thesaurus. It’s a Java based implementation and is quite exhaustive.
Written by Varun Aggarwal on 06.24.08
@#6: The source code is available on the internet and its not flex. Its flash AS2 and its pretty lightweight for what it does.
I’ve seen Visual Thesaurus too. They use the EXACT same dictionary as these guys. The funny thing is that these guys announce loudly that the lexical database is the work of Princeton University and is free and opensource. The Visual Thesaurus guys though are completely mum about that and rake you for your cash!! Plus, I’ve seen a lot more connection types in Visuwords that don’t even show up in Visual Thesaurus. This for free? Bygum! Yes! VisualThesaurus won’t get my money.
Visuwords slower? Well, I think there’s a lot more info in here. Maybe that’s why.
Written by Paul on 06.24.08
O man this Rocks!! Lookup a word in Visual Thesaurus and then look up the word in Visuwords. The definitions are EXACTLY the same. They are using the same database. Except Visuwords shows more connections and a greater diversity of relationships. Visuwords is free! Why the heck was I paying for Visual Thesaurus? It doesn’t make MY browser go slow. Visuwords has a full-screen mode too. Its slick as butter.
Written by Frances on 09.26.08