dict-moby-thesaurus software package provides Largest and most comprehensive thesaurus, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install dict-moby-thesaurus
dict-moby-thesaurus is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dict-moby-thesaurus package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dict-moby-thesaurus *
You will get with dict-moby-thesaurus package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | dict-moby-thesaurus |
| Version | 1.0-6.3 |
| Description | Largest and most comprehensive thesaurus |
| Sub Section | text |