Dictionary.com

- June 13, 2016

Everyone

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Description

Dictionary.com is the leading free English dictionary app for Android – with over 2,000,000 definitions and synonyms.

This app works offline – you do not need an internet connection.

In addition to the trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, this app includes:

• Word of the Day – learn a new word every day
• Audio pronunciation – hear every word
• Voice search – speak to search
• Translator – get translations for over 30 languages
• Blog – explore over 800 fun language topics
• Slideshows – fascinating facts about language
• Quiz widget - test your vocabulary with Word of the Day quizzes
• Word origin - find out interesting etymologies
• Favorite words and search history – never forget the words you learn
• Spelling suggestions – get help with how words are spelled
• Local lookups - see which words are being searched near you
• Advanced learner’s dictionary – special content for ESL, EFL and English learners

Want even more? You can add to your app with our in-app purchases:

• Encyclopedia
• Slang Dictionary
• Idioms and Phrases
• Example Sentences
• Medical, Science and Rhyming Dictionaries

Or you can get all of this additional content and remove ads for one low price with our Premium App.

Reviews

4.6

852,106 total

5 612,194

4 164,955

3 37,824

2 13,344

1 23,255

Phimu Ashuli

I am falling in love with it..😁😁😄 I do have another dictionary app which is totally offline and no advertisement to annoy you but I still rate this one as 5* because everyday I log in just to read the "word of the day" and it really helps me learning many new words. Everyday if I learn one word that's absolutely fantastic because it's all new to me for English isn't my first language. I am trying hard to catch each one of them. Thanks team. God bless

Nick S

Random Pages I have the app set up as a widget to receive the word of the day but whenever I click on the widget to see a more detailed definition it takes me to a random word from weeks ago instead of that days word. Additionally it is hit or miss whenever it comes to using the pronunciation button from the widget sometimes the audio works and others, which happens more often, it does not work at all. Otherwise a great app but would like to see some bugs worked out before being pleased.

Becky Smith

Generally great--except when I hit "share" Every time I try to share the Word of the Day on fb, the graphic link the app creates has the wrong word! The LINK is fine--if you tap on it, it goes to the correct word. But the VISUAL on the graphic link is the WotD from some other day--today it showed the word from 3 days ago! I'm ignoring their points system--I'll never accumulate enough for anything. But it's a very handy app to have on my phone to just quickly look up a definition or spelling, & the word of the day has often been very interesting!

Edward M. Lewis, Jr.

Love It! Love the fact that it saves word searches (recent search) even if favorite word is not checked. Love that if need arises, pronunciations are a finger tap away. This app is used for my tablet exclusively; only wish it was an automatic search while reading a book but that is an easy adjustment. Also, recent word searches can be sent to your email, clipboard or about any other method for future reference and built right in. As far as this reader is concerned this is one of, if not the best app out there.

Adhitya Junian Dasuki

Vast and Excellent App, unfortunately It has word of the day, daily linguistic article/post and also extra (paid) features like Science Dictionary, Learn Example, etc. It also offer offline vocabulary database, so i camln use the dictionary anytime. The design is simple and relaxing and i love the blue-colored design, tho. Unfortunately, i can't move this app to external storage. That's the only thing that i complain about. Overall, this is an excellent app (thumb). I hope someday it can be moved to external storage

robTCGZ

I love this app. As an English student myself, it has been incredibly handy, and the fact that it provides different meanings depending on the function of the word is amazing; the synonyms are very useful too. My only concern right now is that the app hasn't been working properly. It doesn't start at all, it just shows the intro, loading screen and then closes itself. Any help with this issue will be highly appreciated

User reviews

Phimu Ashuli September 22, 2016

Nick S June 29, 2016

Dictionary.com, LLC June 30, 2016

Hi Nick, I would like to hear more about your current issue with the app. Please contact me at support@dictionary.zendesk.com. Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support

Becky Smith July 16, 2016

Edward M. Lewis, Jr. August 7, 2016

Adhitya Junian Dasuki September 23, 2016

robTCGZ August 24, 2016

Steve Palmer September 23, 2016

Free version is great, Premium didn't work As a writer, I find the dictionary and thesaurus to be very helpful and easy to use. When I decided to upgrade to the premium version (on my Droid Turbo 2), though, the app stopped working all together. It would just force close every time I tried to open it. Fortunately, it was easy to uninstall and get a refund. In any case, I'm still happy with the free version.

Colin MacKenzie September 3, 2016

Just because my Mom asked me how often I used this app (she was curious about my usage frequency to help her decide whether or not to download it,) I literally kept a log of my usage for 10 days. Both she & I were shocked, I opened this (not always to look up a new word for me, I've found it has MANY uses) an average of 10.4 times per day!!! I was totally surprised by how frequently I go to it, but it is incredibly useful, super simple to navigate, and has so so so many intuitive & wonderful functions.

Ed Lane August 1, 2016

Great app, but a suggestion for the developers: The app is fantastic and has great words and vocabulary expansion ability, but the examples of the word in a sentence or phrase are from literature or novels/books only. And often, those quotes may use the word in a sentence, but don't make much sense teaching people how to use that word in context, plain language, etc. I don't mind seeing the literary references, but help me use this newly-discovered word in my everyday life.

Robert Yukutake Jr. June 20, 2016

Still Works great. I love it! I rate this 5 stars! Actually 15 stars, being this is my 3rd review, & it's been working like a champ. No ka'oi, that means, the best or #1 in Hawaiian. What else is there to say? Proper spelling is important for me, & the thesaurus allows my writings, to not only broaden my cache of words, but my readers too! The ability to always have this kind of knowledge at my call & beckon is invaluable. That's my opinion. Try it, then you decide.

Jennifer Jackson-Ayers Sr July 2, 2016

Never Forgotten 'Forgotten' Brain Exercising... Great app to have, especially if you have children. Everyone, every where depends on Google these days.. Encourage your child/children to pick up a dictionary a couple days of the week. SUGGESTION: WRITE down 5 or so words and have them look it up, write down the meaning and an example using the word! This teaches them researching, spelling, reading and writing because they will be putting in down on paper...

August 28, 2016

Amazing It's a very good app and an educative one. It's a must for school children as it helps them increase their knowledge of words. It's a treat for book lovers who very often encounter with tough words. I can go on saying about the app because it consumes all my data as it's the only app I use,almost everyday . I have stopped using the social networking sites as I have got addicted to it. Indeed it has made me a logophile.

August 21, 2016

Love it! Now please add a sign-in/back-up option so can transfer Favorites to Premium acct & access them if/when purchase a new phone. Only gripe is had to manually search & select my 200+ Favorites when upgraded to Premium account. Recently purchased new phone and have to do it again. Extremely Tedious :-(. A sign-in/back-up option would be invaluable. Other than that, app has lots of features & a smooth interface. Is my all-around favorite app hands down.

DefaltS September 16, 2016

Handy at the right time I am always reading books and find new words, always, this is amazing to use in general, too. Everything works just fine and the Word of the Day always provides something new and always do I look forward to it. Keeping this app with you doesn't hurt and can be useful whenever you need it, though if there were an offline version, that save me some time as I find myself in such times.

Kevin James September 21, 2016

Good and Convenient, but Need to Fix WOTD The app is more than convenient and good at what it does. The devs listen to complaints and make fixes accordingly, what more could you want. The only annoying thing is that opening the Word of the Day from the widget always opens on the last WOTD that you viewed. It used to -- and I'd expect it to -- open on the displayed/current day's word.

Marta Walejewski September 24, 2016

Dictionary app Very useful and makes learning easy and fun-9/24/2016-what happened to this app? As if it didn't take years to get enough points to get anything, now they reduced the points and it will take a lifetime! I'm tired of take, take, take! They use all of our info and now give nothing back. I'm done, ur better off doing Coke rewards plan!

Jimmy Bell August 9, 2016

MOST HELPFUL This is the most helpful app I've ever had! because of this app I've gotten so much better at my spelling because all you have to do is say the word and it spells it correctly. And the word of the day that's helpful to the whole family. I do recommend the upgrades though. Now I normally don't buy the upgrades but in this case they do help. And this app could help a child learning to spell because it shows you the proper way to use the word spell the word and it even pronounces the word for you!

Zack Zack September 13, 2016

Excellent! I use it everyday! it's even better with the rewards now because it encourages you to learn! The only thing I would change would be collecting your points. It would be nice to get them all at once instead of having to tap on each one individually and watch ads in between.

Saneleh Mbele August 24, 2016

The app doesn't start working anymore on my Samsung j1 ace When I try to login to it, it says unfortunately the app has stopped working. Another issue, is the issue of sentence examples, the sentences used as examples to clarify the word does not help that much since they are taken from books, it would be great if you can use simple sentences so that we will understand easily on how to use the word.... thank you

Dictionary.com, LLC August 26, 2016

Hi Saneleh, The issue with crashing has been fixed. We hope this will help improve your experience and rating of our app. If you are still experiencing issues please contact us at support@dictionary.zendesk.com. Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support

Richie Frerking July 1, 2016

Good App in general This app is one of the more useful utility apps. It is simple to use and find definitions and synonyms, and is even great to have an offline mode for free. The only issues are that the previous searches are in the way when you try to look up a word. Tip: Don't sign up for the mPlus rewards;it usually gets in the way.

Britney Heidemann June 16, 2016

Almost perfect Really like that it has a thesaurus, and a word of the day feature. However, it doesn't have every English word possible. I use the app not only for a definition but also to know how to pronounce words. Just looked up a medical word, not in here. Guess I'll just download a medical dictionary app as well.

vivek kumar July 7, 2016

Terrible update The latest update has brought with it a few bugs. Apparently today's June 17 and its almost impossible to revert to the present date. Didnt face such issues in the previous version. The content is a mixed bag but much better than other competitors

Dictionary.com, LLC July 8, 2016

Hi Vivek, I would like to hear more about your current issue with the app. Please contact me at support@dictionary.zendesk.com. Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support

Sakthivel Murugesan August 26, 2016

Fixed Crashing Issue and increasing rating. Nice app easy to search and also has nice features like word of day, translator also voice to pronounce word. Blog and slideshow are great topics to learn. After update everything is cool even the UI. Also earn points using this app. No more freeze recently after update. Raising star.

Dictionary.com, LLC August 26, 2016

Hi, The issue with crashing has been fixed. We hope this will help improve your experience and rating of our app. If you are still experiencing issues please contact us at support@dictionary.zendesk.com. Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support

Shimmer Ginger June 10, 2016

Great! This is my favorite dictionary app so far! However there's a room for a little improvement: to determine whether a word is a transitive or intransitive verb. I don't seem to find that feature other than simply the "verb". I'll give 5 stars if it exists!

Roshan Kumar Baranwal June 29, 2016

Does not work offline initially For every and each first word you search in dictionary, App need to connect to internet. If you don't have data pack you can't search for a new word. Nothing is free in this app except simple words search. All upgrades items requires rs 125. So don't download it. Download the 'word web' app which works offline for each and every new word and quick search is also is there by clicking on any word.

Dictionary.com, LLC June 30, 2016

Hi Roshan, For help downloading the offline dictionary, please contact me at support@dictionary.zendesk.com Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support

Kristal Holt September 21, 2016

Disappointed So disappointed that all these Mplus point apps are so drastically reducing the amount that you can earn. The points are the reason we have these apps and now that the points are so minimal, the apps aren't worth keeping. Definitely going to be uninstalling this one. The points are reduced to almost nothing and it just isn't worth the time spent in it anymore.

Jennifer Moore June 15, 2016

Frequent user I love having this at my fingertips and I use it often. I appreciate having the option to search synonyms and to hear the words aloud for pronunciation. See an unfamiliar word while you're using the app? Just touch it and it links to the dictionary entry for that word! I also enjoy the 'Word of the Day' feature.

Heather Carruthers June 18, 2016

Pretty Good It's pretty good, I needed something that could be used off-line and I LOVE the translation thing. I never knew I could basically learn another language so easily! I like the word of the day stuff; it builds vocabulary. I still haven't explored everything yet but I am liking it so far.

Ko Weng Ng August 18, 2016

Useful but.. A great app for quickly finding different ways to say a word, learning new words on a daily basis, and getting rewarded for doing so. However, when you make numerous searches there's no quick way to go back to the home menu.

Erin Doran June 23, 2016

Calling all nerds Word of the day, yep. Thesaurus you can get lost in by clicking synonymous to your hearts content (for hours, yeah, I do that), check. Ability to favorite words so you have a running list of awesomeness, absolutely. Good app, no crashes, notification for word o'the day if you so please. Considering paid version.

C Wong August 16, 2016

Very useful and extremely handy. A lifesaver when you are writing something or messaging and is unsure of a word. Word of the day really fun way to improve vocabulary and learn new words. I like it very much. I consider it one of the best apps on my phone and cannot do without it. A must have app!

Lori Spinhirne July 28, 2016

Very useful I use this app almost daily. The only issue I have with it is that when I try to share the word of the day on Facebook, it usually picks the word from a previous day. The latest version has gotten worse with respect to the WOTD. Not only has the previous issue not been resolved, but now, when I click on the widget to get more info on the WOTD, it takes me to an old word and I have to scroll through several to get to the current one.

Taseer Ahmad September 14, 2016

This a good but... Yep! It is quite easy to handle, simple and durable but I got "sorry! Unfortunately Dictionary stopped working." I had to give it a rest for a couple of days until the bug fixed on its own. May be, this is a problem with certain android smartphones, I'm unsure! Well, there is no etymology in the application. You have to download the origin of the word that you are searching for. Overall, I have found it useful.

Mr Gramps Thornton July 31, 2016

The older version was great: 5 stars. If the "improved" version becomes as easy to use, I'll upgrade my assessment. NEW: After three weeks, I downgraded to a generous 3. The app is Much more difficult to navigate; especially between dictionary,word of the day and thesaurus. The screen layout stinks giving ME no reason to buy the extra features.

Dictionary.com, LLC August 1, 2016

Hi, We’re sorry to hear that. Please email me at support@dictionary.zendesk.com and tell us how we can improve your experience and rating of our app. Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support

Michael Coffen June 26, 2016

Easy, fast and simple This is by far the best dictionary app available. The easy to understand interface and quick supply have hooked me. I doubt I'll be using any other app anytime soon. Keep up the exception service guys... some of us are counting on you.

Clay Herendeen September 1, 2016

Good app convenient to have notifications every day with new words. would like it if they implemented the definition In the notification when you pull down on the notification. I know this feature isn't available for all devices but would be easy to add in for those that do support it

Oindrila De July 19, 2016

The best dictionary app ever! 👍 I learned about it through Kaplan GRE guide book and this app just perfectly suits into the verbal reasoning section. A very informative, well organized and also a creative app which certainly knows how to interest users. Apt for anyone who wants to build up their vocabulary! Cheers!

Jenni Sweger September 25, 2016

Effective and Efficient App This app is very easy to use and helpful the way it is set up. You can easily go back and forth to the dictionary and thesaurus with a click of a tab. When the definition pops up it also shows you a breakdown of how the word can be used as a noun, adjective, and/or verb, and lists the top synonyms and antonyms.

Angie Covarrubias July 6, 2016

Stops suddenly and repeatedly! Would be a great dictionary if it never unexpectedly stopped. It's annoying to have to exit the app and restart, it order to continue on... update: it was made better, but with the latest update, it is NO GOOD again! I lov(ED) to use the thesaurus and with every new search , it would remain in the thesaurus tab...but with the latest update, now I have to continually touch the THESAURUS tab with every search because it reverts automatically to the DICTIONARY tab, this is bad!

Linda Gottschalk July 13, 2016

Latest update With the latest update I'm no longer able to use the widget, it doesn't work as it should. The help desk did try very hard to make it better but nothing worked. I do thank them for that! I access through my apps but still find it is not as user friendly as before. I loved this app until the last update.

Dictionary.com, LLC June 22, 2016

Hi Linda, I would like to hear more about your current issue with the app. Please contact me at support@dictionary.zendesk.com. Kind regards, Evelyn Dictionary.com Support