WordWeb is not available for Linux but there are a few alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best open source Linux alternative is Artha. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to WordWeb and three of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to WordWeb are WordNet and Gnome Dictionary.
Artha is a handy thesaurus based on WordNet with distinct features like global hotkey look-up, passive desktop notifications, regular expression based search, etc.. Artha may be used as a free open-source replacement to the proprietary WordWeb Pro.
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations.
GNOME Dictionary is a simple, clean, elegant application to look up words in online dictionaries using the DICT protocol.
can't find words from anywhere like wordweb
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It's good better for fast searching of a meaning of a word. Almost like the world wide web.