Dictionary - Merriam-Webster 3.1.1

As technology advanced, people started to adapt and improve even their most common activities and practices. Fortunately, now we don't need to carry thick and heavy books around to have information available at all times. The same goes with dictionaries. With the Merriam-Webster dictionary app you can have all the English words in your back pocket, waiting to be discovered.

Look up words in the English dictionary instantly

Whether you're using the app for academic purposes or just to enrich your vocabulary, it will provide you with extensive meanings of words, phonology and phonetics and examples. Simply type in the word to find out its meaning, as well as antonyms and synonyms, together with notes on the meaning of each word. Also, the app displays the year when the word was first used.

The app also records a history of all words you've searched, so it's quite easy to shift through all your past searches. There's also a section with favorited words and definitions and the word of the day, but just the day, because the app doesn't display selections for past days. However, the app comes with voice search and is available offline.

Uncomplicated, but simplistic app that lacks useful features

When you think of a dictionary app, you picture intuitive design and emphasis on content. While, Merriam-Webster dictionary hits the mark, it still lacks some features that would make it stand out. For example, there's no translator section, no grammar tips and nothing that would make this an interesting app.

It functions perfectly and provides accurate descriptions of words, but has nothing else to make it appealing. The paid version comes with many more tools, like biographic and geographic entries and foreign words and phrases used in English. In addition, the developer took the opportunity to market some of its other phone applications.