Dictionary

A Google user

5 years ago

Always a pleasure to visit almost everyday! Great articles and information to help stimulate my appetite for learning. Over the years improvements have been made which are non-intrusive and without just "adding things" to clutter and make it less enjoyable. Having a feature to turn off the very few areas that I'm not interested in makes it an even faster way to get on my busy schedule.

A Google user

6 years ago

The feature "Mentioned In", is limited. In general the ads do get in the way. Good customer email support. The location to Log-In is to centralized and large. Where as, the location of the search feature, is not centralized and to small. Should be the other way around, they got it backwards. Why put the search feature in an inconspicuous place, which is used more often?

Bob Foxworth

2 years ago

Best dictionary I have found, including The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language. 08-28-22 ^ DITTO. Everything a writer needs easily at hand, especially the thesaurus, which is exhaustive and sure to provide one with the right word. Mark Twain said, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word ... is the difference between the lightening and the lightening bug."

Angela Parrish

1 year ago

Perfect tool for exploring my innate passion for language. The customizable bookmarking feature is **fabulous**. I also find the audio pronunciation feature invaluable! I'm an avid reader, but there's few things more embarrassing than knowing how to *use* a word in conversation yet pronouncing it incorrectly! I love this app. I can't do without it and cannot even offer any suggestions on how to improve it. If you love language, or simply need a hand on spelling, grammar, pronunciation, or syn

Corey Beth (Aquarius Dawn)

2 years ago

I used to love this app; it has both definitions & Wikipedia-like entries, & a homepage including word-related mini games, trivia, articles such as "person of the day," etc. I've used it for years. Recently, to my disappointment, it stopped working correctly. Regardless of my task- looking up words, trying to browse, etc- the app crashes after 30-60 seconds. Not enough time to do much at all. So I'm dropping my rating from 5 stars to 2. Please fix this bug & I'll be glad to go back to 5 stars!

Matthew

4 years ago

Nice dictionary. So much in it. I love it. It gets 2 stars because it has those unique ads that are designed for you to "accidentally" click on, even if you don't particularly care about the product or service. This causes issues with the personalization of your ads if you care about that sort of thing, not to mention being redirected somewhere when you just wanted to look up a word and get back to your novel.

A Google user

5 years ago

Edit: Thanks for the quick response. I was getting ads after doing the in-app upgrade. After playing with it more, I think it's a bug: ads still show up for words I looked up before the upgrade, but not for new words. 4 stars apart from that bug. Other than that, the text first loads in the smallest font and only then resizes, which means the text jumps around uncomfortably and makes using the app slower.

Willa Cantu

2 years ago

I've tried almost every dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, information on a word or subject, and I especially love the section on (the beginning; then the ending) of a word. This area I use for the scrabble game: "War with Words', which came in so handy, not only for winning their weekly contest, but my knowledge and vocabulary has zoomed to triple digits. Making a living as a writer, teacher, this IS, the best reference Dictionary I've ever used in my 45 yrs. swimming the Literary orbit.

Dana Huffman

2 years ago

Fine as a dictionary, but the website does that. Has a weird dashboardy thing at the bottom of the page that is kind of distracting; it appears to have a notification but no matter where you click on it you go to the "install" page for some weather app. Also, the daily gift seems to have disaopeared. Kind of disappointing in the end.

Horace Friend

3 years ago

Probably the best dictionary app. The ads are not that annoying. You need to be a registered user otherwise your bookmarks aren't saved. I only gave it 4 stars because it has a lot of other features that is useless to me and I am not sure if I can turn them off without crippling the app. There is an "Ugrade to Pro" link in the app but the Web link always returns an error. Update 05/11/21. I finally bought the app because it truly is the best. I'm giving it 5 stars for content.

A Google user

5 years ago

I love learning and finding exactly what I need. This app does offer that plus it has some added creativity in word learning and information about events and things from past centuries and present that happened on this day. I find the latter to be irrelevant and also has some word games included. I would rather keep it simple and not add too much on an app.

CP Wood (Cece)

4 years ago

I enjoy all of the additional tidbits of mostly interesting information when looking for a particular word. I like this app, as I am not a serious researcher of words for work, or anything important; I just enjoy learning new words, or refreshing my old brain about a definition I have somehow forgotten. I have a couple of paperback dictionaries if I want to look up words, which I still prefer, at times.

A Google user

5 years ago

This app is something I use regularly, as it is versatile, and compact. I use it for my creative writing, and it works nicely for that. The countless features are handy, and whilst there are apps like thesaurus apps that do said feature with more complexity and grace, it is all in one, contained place within this app. Making the cons negligible when considering it's an added bonus, and the meat is the dictionary, which is superb. Addendum: With a troubling bug as of late, they quickly fixed it.

Paul Edward

2 years ago

So far, all good. 5⭐ @Sh Mo- If I understand correctly, it's awaiting your app selection to provide feedback. Most only support email for this but some may allow Telegram, SMS, etc. However, the Share Menu is far from perfect; it seems that even if email is the only option that will work, you're able to choose any of your social apps & if unsupported, it crashes without notice. One could easily think they submitted logs, a bug report, etc. but in truth, nothing but the app crashing took place.

Robert Simmons

3 years ago

EDIT: The flashcards function needs to be revamped, in that you need to have the option to see more than just one definition on them. AND, if it's too long, the whole thing doesn't fit. "OMG, FLASHCARDS?! This is the greatest.... Uh, THING I've ever seen! (I'm going to start using them to increase my vocabulary immediately.) I actually have been using a physical dictionary, and writing down definitions on paper; but this is totally more convenient."

Erik

11 months ago

1. Previous word searches do not clear automatically from the search field, when within the same session. 2. All the definitions and source-credits run together, making it harder to distinguish the definitions from the credits. 3. No black amoled theme. 4. By typing the first few letters of a word, this app still cannot predict which word I am looking for, until I finish the whole word (e.g., type "succin..." and see if it can predict "succinct") 5. Offline searches hang even when I'm offline!

Sammy Swanksmith

8 months ago

Possibly the most obtrusive, obnoxious ads I've seen in any app in my life. They interrupt you and take the entire screen, force you to watch a video. The only way to dismiss is to click skip, then a microscopic X which is deliberately hard to tap, so when you miss it launches a website for the product to harvest more data. That happened to me 3 times. The most anti consumer experience I've ever had. No dictionary is worth this waterboarding. Besides that, terrible UI. UNINSTALLED.