<!DOCTYPE html> <html data-lt-installed="true"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body style="padding-bottom: 1px;"> Heya, the thesaurus we have for English was created by Daniel Naber a long time ago. I once asked him how to create an up-to-date thesaurus, and Daniel gave me a link to the script he used to build it. I no longer remember the URL of the script, nor know who would be willing to learn how to use the script to build a new thesaurus. Also notice that the current thesaurus is around 18 MB big, an up-to-date one would probably be much larger. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/07/2025 16:25, Roger Squier wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:22c7b9b3-7ec0-4a8b-a896-79ae08cc6215@gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">I hope I am sending this email to the right place. It is not about a 'bug'; it is about improving the quality of the Thesaurus in Writer 25.2.5.2. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Having migrated from MS Word to Libre Office Writer, I’ve found the English Thesaurus included in Writer hopelessly inadequate. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Would it be possible for the developers create or find a better Thesaurus? <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Just as an example, a search for a synonym for ‘peered'’ in Writer produced the result shown in the attached file. The Thesaurus appears to not understand English grammar. 'Peered' is a past participle of the verb To Peer, e.g. To Look; it is not a noun. This result is similar to some of the other results I get when I want to find a synonym for a word in Writer. I have even wondered if Writer Thesaurus is going by the sound of a word and not the grammar. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">See for example File Hippo: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/peered.html" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/peered.html</a> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Surely Writer Thesaurus can be improved significantly. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Regards <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Rwsjr </blockquote> </body> <lt-container></lt-container> </html>