Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster Inc.

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your Android device. Continuously updated with the newest words and meanings, this is the premier Android app for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building.

And now we’ve added new word games! It’s never been more fun to learn new words and test your vocabulary for everyone from English learners to total word nerds.

The app is free, and supported by ads. To remove ads, a subscription is available.

Offline access: You’ll have complete access to definitions and synonyms whether or not you’re connected. You will need a connection to view illustrations, hear audio pronunciations, and use voice search.

Features:
* New Vocabulary-Building Quizzes: fun, fast quizzes to learn new words or test your vocabulary
* Additional vocabulary-building resources available with in-app purchase
* Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it
* Word of the Day: learn a new word every day
* Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use
* Example Sentences: understand how a word is used in context
* Audio Pronunciations: voiced by real English speakers, not text-to-speech robots
* Favorite Words and Search History: keep track of the words that are most important to you
* Favorite Word Syncing: share your favorites between devices
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index

Ratings and reviews

Very difficult and frustrating to simply look up a word without the focus going to something else, because the app is very sensitive to touches. As you move down to read a definition, it is very easily activated to go to something else (to another related word or an ad). There is not a way to go back to the word being looked up without starting over and re-entering it. The app is not very user friendly.

I purchased the ad-free version several years ago. I use the thesaurus daily. I love the app, and I love having unfettered access to a great dictionary & thesaurus. I only have 2 complaints about the app; first, when I open the app and put my cursor in the search bar, the keyboard disappears even if I am typing; and second, in 2024, the price went from $1.99/year to $5.99/year.

The app doesn't work as stated. I contacted support by email and their response was "noted'. no help, but a few links and nothing of value. It said before I downloaded it that word finder was part of the app. A simple question, but their support desk could not tell me either way. It is ok as a dictionary only. the layout is not functional and no search tool for parts of the app such as word finder. Not worth the money, maybe ok as free, but I made the mistake of paying for remove ads as 2 many

What’s new

Dictionary updated with new words, and newly revised definitions.

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.