#Meltdown synonym code

#Meltdown synonym code

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. A period of mental illness resulting from severe depression, stress, or anxiety.

There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Heres a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. The goal for the support person at the height of a meltdown is to ensure safety, knowing the meltdown will continue until the energy is spent. In fact, safety becomes the focus of attention during the autistic meltdown. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. Since an autistic meltdown is the body’s attempt to gain equilibrium by expending energy, safety concerns often loom large. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions.

These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary.