OneLook Reverse Dictionary Search : Find a Word

How many times have you been unable to put your thoughts into words. A dictionary will not help you since you do not know the word. A thesaurus will help you find related words to a word you do not know. Have a concept – get a word. That is what the Onelook Reverse Dictionary does.

Just fill in your thought into the Onelook Reverse Dictionary Search and get a word. Keep it short to get the best results. In most cases you’ll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.

OneLook indexes hundreds of online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sites and then searches the references for words that have definitions conceptually similar to the words you search for.

Since it returns a lot of word results, they suggest that for some types of searches only the first result or the first few results are likely to be useful. If you get back nothing useful, try restarting your query so that it’s just two or three simple words.

Once you have your word, click on it to get its dictionary definition from multiple online dictionary sources like Merriam Webster, Encarta, Oxford, Wiktionary etc.