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Words For "shakespearean english"

As you've probably noticed, words for "shakespearean english" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "shakespearean english" are: Anglo-Saxon, e, Kean, Edmund, Arne, and Anglo-. There are 994 other words that are related to or similar to shakespearean english listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "shakespearean english" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

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I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

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