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syn provides a dependency free way to get synonyms and antonyms of words.

Usage

syn(word, n_words = -1)

Arguments

word

character, one word you want to find synonyms for.

n_words

integer, the number of words to look for. An integer Default is all words

Value

synonyms of the word you entered. Returns character(0) if word not found.

See also

It's main functions are:

Learn more about syn at https://syn.njtierney.com/

Author

Maintainer: Nicholas Tierney nicholas.tierney@gmail.com (ORCID)

Authors:

Other contributors:

Examples

# put some examples here
syn("good")
#>   [1] "able to pay"          "absolutely"           "acceptable"          
#>   [4] "accomplished"         "according to Hoyle"   "ace"                 
#>   [7] "actual"               "adept"                "adequate"            
#>  [10] "admirable"            "admissible"           "adroit"              
#>  [13] "advantage"            "advantageous"         "advisable"           
#>  [16] "affable"              "affectionate"         "agreeable"           
#>  [19] "all right"            "all-knowing"          "all-powerful"        
#>  [22] "all-seeing"           "all-wise"             "allowable"           
#>  [25] "almighty"             "alright"              "alrighty"            
#>  [28] "amazing"              "ambrosial"            "amen"                
#>  [31] "amiable"              "amicable"             "ample"               
#>  [34] "angelic"              "appropriate"          "approving"           
#>  [37] "apt"                  "artistic"             "as you say"          
#>  [40] "assets"               "assuredly"            "attractive"          
#>  [43] "auspicious"           "authentic"            "authoritative"       
#>  [46] "avail"                "aye"                  "bad"                 
#>  [49] "balanced"             "barely sufficient"    "becoming"            
#>  [52] "befitting"            "behalf"               "behoof"              
#>  [55] "believable"           "belongings"           "benediction"         
#>  [58] "beneficent"           "beneficial"           "benefit"             
#>  [61] "benevolent"           "benign"               "benignant"           
#>  [64] "benignantly"          "benignly"             "benison"             
#>  [67] "best"                 "binding"              "blameless"           
#>  [70] "blessing"             "blissful"             "bon"                 
#>  [73] "bona fide"            "bonny"                "boon"                
#>  [76] "boundless"            "bracing"              "brave"               
#>  [79] "bravura"              "braw"                 "bright"              
#>  [82] "brilliant"            "brotherly"            "bueno"               
#>  [85] "by all means"         "candid"               "capital"             
#>  [88] "card-carrying"        "careful"              "certainly"           
#>  [91] "champion"             "changeless"           "charitable"          
#>  [94] "chaste"               "chattels"             "cheerful"            
#>  [97] "choice"               "Christian"            "Christlike"          
#> [100] "Christly"             "clean"                "clever"              
#> [103] "cloth"                "cogent"               "commendable"         
#> [106] "commensurate"         "commodities"          "company"             
#> [109] "compassionate"        "compatible"           "compelling"          
#> [112] "competent"            "complaisant"          "complete"            
#> [115] "complimentary"        "condign"              "congenial"           
#> [118] "congruous"            "considerable"         "considerate"         
#> [121] "consistent"           "constitutional"       "consumable"          
#> [124] "convenient"           "convincing"           "coordinated"         
#> [127] "cordial"              "correct"              "corresponding"       
#> [130] "crack"                "crackerjack"          "cracking"            
#> [133] "creating"             "creative"             "credible"            
#> [136] "creditable"           "crucial"              "cunning"             
#> [139] "cute"                 "da"                   "daedal"              
#> [142] "Daedalian"            "dainty"               "decent"              
#> [145] "decorous"             "defensible"           "deft"                
#> [148] "delectable"           "delicate"             "delicious"           
#> [151] "delightful"           "dependable"           "deserved"            
#> [154] "desirable"            "dexterous"            "dextrous"            
#> [157] "dinkum"               "diplomatic"           "due"                 
#> [160] "dulcet"               "edible"               "effects"             
#> [163] "elegant"              "elevated"             "en rapport"          
#> [166] "encomiastic"          "enjoyable"            "enough"              
#> [169] "enthusiastic"         "equal to"             "equitable"           
#> [172] "erect"                "established"          "esteemed"            
#> [175] "estimable"            "eternal"              "eternally the same"  
#> [178] "ethical"              "eulogistic"           "even"                
#> [181] "evenhanded"           "everlasting"          "exactly"             
#> [184] "excellent"            "exemplary"            "expedient"           
#> [187] "expert"               "exquisite"            "extensive"           
#> [190] "extraordinary"        "fab"                  "fabric"              
#> [193] "fabulous"             "fair"                 "fair and pleasant"   
#> [196] "fair and square"      "famous"               "fancy"               
#> [199] "fantastic"            "favorable"            "favorably"           
#> [202] "favoring"             "feasible"             "felicific"           
#> [205] "felicitous"           "fine"                 "first-class"         
#> [208] "first-rate"           "fit"                  "fitten"              
#> [211] "fitting"              "flattering"           "following the letter"
#> [214] "fortunate"            "fraternal"            "freight"             
#> [217] "fresh"                "friendly"             "fructuous"           
#> [220] "full"                 "full of integrity"    "full of promise"     
#> [223] "gain"                 "gear"                 "genial"              
#> [226] "gentle"               "genuine"              "gifted"              
#> [229] "glorious"             "God-fearing"          "godlike"             
#> [232] "godly"                "godly-minded"         "godsend"             
#> [235] "golden"               "good"                 "good enough"         
#> [238] "good for"             "good to eat"          "good-hearted"        
#> [241] "good-tasting"         "goodish"              "goodly"              
#> [244] "goodness"             "goods"                "graceful"            
#> [247] "gracious"             "grand"                "grateful"            
#> [250] "gratifying"           "great"                "groovy"              
#> [253] "gustable"             "gusty"                "hallowed"            
#> [256] "handy"                "happy"                "harmonious"          
#> [259] "health-enhancing"     "health-preserving"    "healthful"           
#> [262] "healthy"              "hear"                 "heart-warming"       
#> [265] "heavenly"             "helpful"              "high-minded"         
#> [268] "high-mindedness"      "high-principled"      "highest"             
#> [271] "highly respectable"   "holy"                 "holy-minded"         
#> [274] "honest"               "honest-to-God"        "honesty"             
#> [277] "honeyed"              "honorable"            "honorableness"       
#> [280] "human"                "humane"               "humanely"            
#> [283] "humanly"              "hygeian"              "hygienic"            
#> [286] "immaculate"           "immortal"             "immutable"           
#> [289] "inartificial"         "indeed"               "indeedy"             
#> [292] "infinite"             "ingenious"            "integrity"           
#> [295] "interest"             "invigorating"         "inviolate"           
#> [298] "irreproachable"       "ja"                   "juicy"               
#> [301] "just"                 "just so"              "justifiable"         
#> [304] "justified"            "kind"                 "kindhearted"         
#> [307] "kindheartedly"        "kindly"               "kindly-disposed"     
#> [310] "knockout"             "kosher"               "lares and penates"   
#> [313] "large"                "laudable"             "laudatory"           
#> [316] "law-abiding"          "law-loving"           "law-revering"        
#> [319] "lawful"               "legal"                "legitimate"          
#> [322] "level"                "lifelike"             "likable"             
#> [325] "likely"               "limitless"            "line"                
#> [328] "literal"              "lofty"                "logical"             
#> [331] "loving"               "lucky"                "luminous"            
#> [334] "luscious"             "lush"                 "magisterial"         
#> [337] "mais oui"             "majestic"             "making"              
#> [340] "manly"                "masterful"            "masterly"            
#> [343] "material"             "meet"                 "meet and right"      
#> [346] "mellifluous"          "mellow"               "merchandise"         
#> [349] "merciful"             "merit"                "merited"             
#> [352] "minimal"              "minimum"              "moral"               
#> [355] "morality"             "most assuredly"       "movables"            
#> [358] "natural"              "naturalistic"         "naturally"           
#> [361] "naturellement"        "neat"                 "nectareous"          
#> [364] "nectarous"            "needed"               "nice"                
#> [367] "nicely"               "no mean"              "nobility"            
#> [370] "noble"                "normal"               "normative"           
#> [373] "numinous"             "obedient"             "of course"           
#> [376] "of good omen"         "of gourmet quality"   "of happy portent"    
#> [379] "of promise"           "OK"                   "okay"                
#> [382] "omnipotent"           "omnipresent"          "omniscient"          
#> [385] "one"                  "opportune"            "orderly"             
#> [388] "original"             "otherworldly"         "oui"                 
#> [391] "outstanding"          "palatable"            "paraphernalia"       
#> [394] "passable"             "penetrating"          "permanent"           
#> [397] "permissible"          "perpetual"            "personal property"   
#> [400] "pleasant"             "pleasing"             "pleasurable"         
#> [403] "pleasureful"          "plenty"               "plenty good enough"  
#> [406] "politic"              "positive"             "positively"          
#> [409] "possessions"          "precisely"            "principled"          
#> [412] "probity"              "produce"              "professional"        
#> [415] "proficient"           "profit"               "profitable"          
#> [418] "promising"            "proper"               "propitious"          
#> [421] "proportionate"        "prosperity"           "prosperous"          
#> [424] "pure"                 "pure in heart"        "purehearted"         
#> [427] "quick"                "quite"                "quite some"          
#> [430] "radiant"              "rather"               "ready"               
#> [433] "real"                 "realistic"            "really"              
#> [436] "recommendable"        "rectitude"            "refreshing"          
#> [439] "regal"                "reliable"             "reputable"           
#> [442] "resourceful"          "respectable"          "respected"           
#> [445] "rewarding"            "right"                "right and proper"    
#> [448] "right-minded"         "righteous"            "righteousness"       
#> [451] "rightful"             "righto"               "Roger"               
#> [454] "royal"                "sacred"               "safe"                
#> [457] "saintlike"            "saintly"              "salubrious"          
#> [460] "salutary"             "sanitary"             "sapid"               
#> [463] "satisfactory"         "satisfying"           "savorous"            
#> [466] "savory"               "scrumptious"          "seasonable"          
#> [469] "secure"               "see you later"        "seemly"              
#> [472] "self-consistent"      "sensible"             "seraphic"            
#> [475] "serious"              "shapely"              "shaping"             
#> [478] "simon-pure"           "simple"               "sincere"             
#> [481] "sizable"              "sizeable"             "skilled"             
#> [484] "skillful"             "slick"                "smart"               
#> [487] "smashing"             "softhearted"          "softheartedly"       
#> [490] "solicitous"           "solid"                "solvent"             
#> [493] "some"                 "sortable"             "sound"               
#> [496] "sovereign"            "spiritual"            "spiritual-minded"    
#> [499] "splendid"             "spotless"             "square"              
#> [502] "stainless"            "statesmanlike"        "sterling"            
#> [505] "stock"                "straight"             "stuff"               
#> [508] "stylish"              "substantial"          "succulent"           
#> [511] "sufficient"           "sufficient for"       "sufficing"           
#> [514] "suitable"             "Sunday"               "superb"              
#> [517] "superior"             "supreme"              "sure"                
#> [520] "sure thing"           "sure-enough"          "surely"              
#> [523] "sweet"                "sympathetic"          "sympathizing"        
#> [526] "tactful"              "talented"             "tangibles"           
#> [529] "tasty"                "tender"               "tenderhearted"       
#> [532] "tenderheartedly"      "terrific"             "textile"             
#> [535] "the compleat"         "the complete"         "things"              
#> [538] "thorough"             "timeless"             "timely"              
#> [541] "to be desired"        "to be sure"           "tolerable"           
#> [544] "tonic"                "toothsome"            "toward"              
#> [547] "true to life"         "true to nature"       "true to reality"     
#> [550] "true-dealing"         "true-devoted"         "true-disposing"      
#> [553] "true-souled"          "true-spirited"        "truehearted"         
#> [556] "truly"                "trustworthy"          "ubiquitous"          
#> [559] "unadulterated"        "unaffected"           "unassumed"           
#> [562] "unassuming"           "unbelievable"         "unblemished"         
#> [565] "unbounded"            "unchanging"           "uncolored"           
#> [568] "unconcocted"          "uncopied"             "uncorrupt"           
#> [571] "uncorrupted"          "uncounterfeited"      "undefiled"           
#> [574] "undefined"            "undisguised"          "undisguising"        
#> [577] "undistorted"          "unearthly"            "unexaggerated"       
#> [580] "unfabricated"         "unfanciful"           "unfeigned"           
#> [583] "unfeigning"           "unfictitious"         "unflattering"        
#> [586] "unimagined"           "unimitated"           "unimpeachable"       
#> [589] "unindebted"           "uninvented"           "unlimited"           
#> [592] "unpretended"          "unpretending"         "unqualified"         
#> [595] "unromantic"           "unsimulated"          "unspecious"          
#> [598] "unspotted"            "unstained"            "unsullied"           
#> [601] "unsynthetic"          "untarnished"          "unvarnished"         
#> [604] "unworldly"            "up to"                "upright"             
#> [607] "uprighteous"          "upstanding"           "use"                 
#> [610] "useful"               "usefulness"           "valid"               
#> [613] "vendibles"            "verbal"               "verbatim"            
#> [616] "veridical"            "verisimilar"          "very good"           
#> [619] "very well"            "virtue"               "virtuoso"            
#> [622] "virtuous"             "virtuousness"         "wares"               
#> [625] "warm"                 "warmhearted"          "warmheartedly"       
#> [628] "warmly"               "warrantable"          "warranted"           
#> [631] "weighty"              "welcome"              "welfare"             
#> [634] "well"                 "well and good"        "well-behaved"        
#> [637] "well-being"           "well-disposed"        "well-done"           
#> [640] "well-founded"         "well-grounded"        "well-mannered"       
#> [643] "well-proportioned"    "well-thought-of"      "well-timed"          
#> [646] "wholesome"            "why yes"              "wicked"              
#> [649] "wise"                 "wonderful"            "word-for-word"       
#> [652] "workmanlike"          "world of good"        "worth"               
#> [655] "worthwhile"           "worthy"               "yard goods"          
#> [658] "yea"                  "yeah"                 "yeomanly"            
#> [661] "yep"                  "yes"                  "yes indeed"          
#> [664] "yes indeedy"          "yes sir"              "yes sirree"          
#> [667] "yummy"               
syn("evil", 25)
#>  [1] "ignominious"       "shameless"         "base"             
#>  [4] "fateful"           "sin of commission" "infection"        
#>  [7] "unmorality"        "unskillful"        "slip"             
#> [10] "invalid"           "unfit"             "evil-starred"     
#> [13] "heinousness"       "sinfulness"        "malfeasance"      
#> [16] "atrocious"         "grisly"            "hard"             
#> [19] "pestilence"        "unvirtuousness"    "headache"         
#> [22] "malefaction"       "revolting"         "angry"            
#> [25] "mephitic"         
# No words for spelling mistakes
syn("spolling misteak")
#> character(0)