A key feature of the modern academic lexicography (compilation of comprehensive dictionaries of large forms) development is the strong influence of educational lexicography. A surge in the appearance of educational dictionaries indicates a certain type of reform in lexicography. Despite the vast variety of dictionaries, they all have certain common properties, such as the transition to active-type dictionaries. Б.И. Ким This is manifested in the desire to give the most complete description of the word, not only to understand the word in the text, but also to be able to use it in speech. Bilingual dictionaries (pursuing usually practical goals) are also obliged to solve these problems. Implementation in the practical plan should be preceded by the creation of a lexicographic concept, which could ensure the use of a wide range of lexical means and convenience in using the dictionary. A particularly important task of the compilers of any dictionary is the consistent use of similar methods of interpretation to the words of the same word-formative types: one lexico-semantic group, an antonymic couple, and a semantic structure.