Dictionary - M-W Premium

Merriam-Webster Inc.

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. Hundreds of words to test your skills.

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:

* No ads
* Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use
* New Vocabulary-Building Quizzes: fun, fast quizzes to learn new words or test your vocabulary
* Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it
* Word of the Day: learn a new word every day
* 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
* Premium Content: over 1000 graphical illustrations, and over 15,000 additional entries covering people and places
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index

Ratings and reviews

Updated: this was previously one of my favorite apps. Now it's barely usable. The dictionary content is top notch, but the user interface is appalling. The three-character jump mentioned elsewhere is nigh unbearable, and the errant tap jumping to whatever random word was under the tap, coupled with this app's complete mangling of the back button make for an intolerable experience. Two stars for the content, zero stars for the UI

Excellent reference. Frustrating user interface. 1. When starting a search on opening the app or after long inactivity, the onscreen keyboard closes abruptly and I must tap and restart my search. 2. When reading an entry, any touch on the screen jumps to the entry for the word touched. Then... 3. There is no easy way to return after such an accident: neither the Android "back" button nor a search history. I reported these at least twice over the years but nothing has changed.

Works great if the voice search worked. I get an error message after tapping the microphone stating that it's not available without an internet connection. That is, while I am connected to my WiFi with internet connection; go figure! And, there are no settings in this app, zero settings, so there is no way to correct this voice search issue that is NOT my issue. I won't invest in an upgrade and may stop using this app since there are many other dictionary apps like Oxford, Cambridge, & OneLook.

What's new

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.