New Oxford Thesaurus of English

New Oxford Thesaurus of English is a handy piece of software which can be used by individuals in order to find alternative or opposite words, and much more.

The interface of the application has a minimal and modern design. In addition to that, the UI is user-friendly, thus enabling any type of person to search for words or expressions with it, no matter how inexperienced they might be to everything pertaining to computers.

The main window consists of a search toolbar, results and a few buttons shortcuts that let you keep the current article open, bring up the several other tools or the developer’s website.

This software utility can be found in the system tray and right clicking on the icon opens a context menu that enables you to restart it, configure some options such as activating spell checker, changing the background color or the display language (just English or Norwegian), and access the Help contents.

The application integrates a Wikipedia search that can help you find out even more details about certain expressions and words such as history, domains in which they are used and disambiguation regarding them.

You should also know the program incorporates an Alpha search, available only in English, which helps you find headwords (terms under which a set of related dictionary entries appears) more easily.

Your search history can be accessed at any time and the size of the text can be changed.

To sum up, New Oxford Thesaurus of English is a very useful piece of software that can help you find alternative or opposite words, and idioms. The program integrates a Wikipedia and Alpha search, features that make it highly efficient and reliable. During our tests there were no bugs or crashes recorded.