wordnet ☆

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Description:
Lexical database for the English language

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 3.1@2 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Ai ml

Tags: nlp linguistics database semantic ai text-processing

Install: brew install wordnet

About:
WordNet is a large lexical database of English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms called synsets, each expressing a distinct concept, and provides short definitions and usage examples. It also records semantic relationships between these synsets, including hypernymy, hyponymy, and meronymy.

Key Features:

Extensive lexical database with over 150,000 words
Semantic network of synsets and conceptual relationships
Command-line interface for querying the database
APIs for integration with other applications

Use Cases:

Natural language processing and computational linguistics research
Semantic search and query expansion
AI and machine learning training data
Lexical analysis and text understanding tools

Alternatives:

ConceptNet – Open-source semantic network with multilingual support and crowdsourced knowledge
FrameNet – Focuses on semantic frames and predicate relationships rather than word senses

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 11, 2025 9:24pm	3.1	2	VERSION_BUMP	6b454e22
Nov 10, 2024 1:46pm	3.1	2	VERSION_BUMP	80aa1634
Sep 19, 2023 2:21am	3.1	1	VERSION_BUMP	7868e7b4
Nov 22, 2022 10:46am	3.1	1	VERSION_BUMP	07981702