Reverse Dictionary – Ever asked yourself “Whats the word for…”

Reverse Dictionary – Ever asked yourself “Whats the word for…”

I just happened to stumble on a pretty interesting tool today.

I was trying to find a word for People that are behind the times for my previous blog post. I did a couple of searches in Google without avail and eventually started scouring for a tool that did a reverse lookup on a word. A tool where I would give the definition, and it would give me some words that matched that definition. What I discovered was Onelook.coms Reverse Dictionary.

Reverse Dictionaries allow you to Describe a concept in order to find words that match that description.

Cool Stuff, especially for all of us non-harvard graduates.

What I find the most interesting though is all of the uses for this tool. It is actually a very smart search engine. You would be suprized the sort of answers you could get from asking a variety of questions. Here are some of potential applications that OneLook describes:

– Find a word, when you know its definition, [or a portion of the definition].
– Explore related concepts. Baseball, clouds, cities.
– Generate...