Power Thesaurus for Firefox

Power Thesaurus is a free, community-built, and sustained online thesaurus/dictionary that aims at offering great resources for students and academics around the world. Thus, they have created an extension that can easily be installed and helps bring knowledge closer to their users and anyone interested in improving their linguistic capabilities.

Like many other services that try to make their users devoted, Power Thesaurus created a small-packed add-on that gives you access to their huge database, built by users’ participation and contribution. All you must do is install the app, give it permission, and the small blue icon will be added to your toolbar. From there, you can go to the preferences to configure the results or use the app as a mini search bar for words.

Among the possibilities it offers, each user can set the desired results as follows: choose if they want to receive definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or just some of these, the user interface mode (dark/light mode), the text size, the number of results; plus, for both the pop-up and the context menu, their behavior can be customized.

First of all, Power Thesaurus is a tool that was built to be fast. Although the database has an incredible amount of words, each result is delivered on point, quick, and extremely accurately, which makes the app convenient to use. The data is always qualitative. Upon using the mini-search in the drop-down, the most significant results are given, alongside a concise definition.

Always offering the possibility for more, there is, for each category, the ‘View all’ option. Clicking on that will open a new page where each word contains other definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and even words from the same lexical field, grouped by tag words. The last one is a very detailed and granular linguistic option that very few online resources offer (usually, with paid subscriptions).

To summarize, if you like to be informed, love languages, like to improve, and get better at expressing yourself, don’t miss Power Thesaurus! Their app is beautifully designed and reveals a great commitment to learning, restless dedication for delivering great quality resources, and to making them accessible, as well.