About this dictionary
This thesaurus is based on the following data source:
- Japanese-English and English-Japanese Translation Dictionary edited by Yoichi Yamaoka: the words/expressions that have the same translation are bundled together as "synonyms" in this dictionary. This dictionary might help you widen your way of thinking, or get a view from a different angle in your writing.
- Wordnet data developed by NICT (Japanese synonyms only)
- You can see the list of words in the dictionary.
- The words listed in Japanese-English and English-Japanese Translation Dictionary part of this dictionary are related in the sense that the words have the same Japanese (English) translation in the dictionary. The translations of the dictionary are extracted from the books having a Japanese (or English) edition. The authors include Stephen King, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lewis Carroll, Soseki Natsume, etc. This dictionary was originally edited by Yoichi YAMAOKA, a seasoned and well known English-Japanese translator.
- This dictionary might help you widen your way of thinking, or get a new insight into your writing.
Example
If you look up childish, you will get a word list like the following:
boyish childlike endearingly innocence innocently inviting juvenile little-girl ←あどけない inadequate uncertain ←たどたどしい adolescent basic young ←子供っぽい bad disastrous poor ←拙い blameless casual guileless innocent naive ←無邪気な early little ←幼い
Depending on the context, "childish" could mean: childlike, poor, blameless, little, ..., and the corresponding Japanese are all different.
