![]() X-Ref button to extend the search to other dictionaries installed on the computer.Using various patterns and wildcards in searches (useful when you are looking for a word but you aren’t sure how to spell it).Full text search (so you can search within the definitions). ![]() Restricting the search for synonyms and antonyms by part of speech.Customizable hotkey, which allows instant look up from almost any program.Pro's tabs-with the dictionaries and searches I use I've added, for example, the Microsoft Language Portal, Google Advance Search, Linguee, Reverso Context, the WordReference EN-IT and several other specialized monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. It also allows adding your own glossaries, adding terms and definitions to the main dictionary, and adding searches from many online dictionary and search engines. The Pro version adds optional dictionaries, for example the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Chambers Thesaurus, the New Oxford American Dictionary and several others (but you have to buy them separately). WordWeb Pro is chiefly a dictionary: in its free version (more about that, and its unusual licensing terms, later) it comes with a large English language dictionary that offers synonyms, antonyms, other useful features such as subordinate and superordinate categories, the ability to restrict searches to a specific grammatical category and to search, from within the program, also Wikipedia and Wiktionary. One of these, the one I use the most, is WordWeb Pro. A few posts ago, in my article on Reverso Context, I mentioned several multi-search applications from which Reverso could be called.
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