As a copywriter, journalist, translator, or a creative writer, you need a reliable database for your writing techniques sometimes. Especially when you’re not an English native, you’ll want to look up words or synonyms from time to time. Online dictionaries with a powerful search engine come in handy for these matters.

Visuwords offers you a stunning online graphical dictionary that helps you in more than just one way. The free online flash based application looks your query up in WordNet, the open-source database of the Princeton University. But it’s more than a standard dictionary.

Athough, in my opinion, it cannot replace the good old table formats of tried and tested databases, such as Reference.com, Infoplease.com or even Rhymezone.com, it can create a great insight on the the origin and relation of a word. Neatly flashilized, Visuwords shows you nouns (blue), verbs (red), adjectives (orange), and adverbs (green) with the corresponding connections to their specific parent or child. By using different visual connection indicators, such as colored, dashed or solid lines, to express relations, germanes, synonyms, and more, the website gives you what you need to know as a writer in an interesting and pleasing way. It’s an online reference and lookup source of its own - worth a try! Go to Visuwords.com and check it out by yourself.