maybe what you want is:
public class MySynonyms {
public static boolean syn(String input, String word){
RiWordnet wordnet = new RiWordnet();
String[] poss = wordnet.getPos(word);
boolean check = false;
String[] synonyms = null;
for (int j = 0; j < poss.length; j++) {
synonyms = wordnet.getAllSynonyms(word, poss[j], 50);
for (int i = 0; i < synonyms.length; i++) {
//System.out.println(synonyms[i]);
}
}
for(int i= 0; i<synonyms.length;i++){
if(input.contains(synonyms[i])){
check=true;
}
}
return check;
}
}
and from your main class:
if(MySynonyms.syn("apel","apple"))
{
//...do something
}
else{
//...do something
}