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. This is the best Android app for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building.

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.

No internet connection is required to view the definitions or thesaurus (although you do 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: synonyms & antonyms are included with the dictionary
* Example Sentences: understand how a word is used in context
* Quick Definitions: perfect for on-the-go lookups
* 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
* For tablets: Scrolling Index - lets you browse the entire dictionary

Ratings and reviews

Handy dictionary except the hyperlinks on words in the descriptions get activated accidently when scrolling down. There is no going back to the word just looked at. One has to search for it all over again. This happens all the time. Touch the screen to scroll down to read more of the description and etymology, and suddenly your at the definition of a word used in the description. Annoying.

Used to LOVE this app for easy reference. But now it's RIDICULOUSLY BLOATED with ads and scrolling is almost useless, since half the time when I contact the screen to scroll, it interprets it as a single tap and jumps to the definition of the word that was on screen where I touched, with no way to navigate back to the previous entry. UNINSTALLED AND LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE. In the meantime, a simply search for "define: [word]" is infinitely better than a CLUNKY app that wastes onboard memory

A dictionary app is a great tool, and MW's pedigree is undeniable. However, words often do not show up in the app, but do when viewed on the MW site in browser. The touch feature (allowing user to tap almost any word on screen and link to its definition), while potentially very handy, is WAY too sensitive, making the simple act of scrolling up or down a nightmare. The app is structured in a way that is intuitive, but it needs a lot of tweaking.

What's new

Updated dictionary with new downloadable content: Medical, Legal, and Kids dictionaries are now available!