Oxford Dictionary Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 504 reviews. Read all reviews for Oxford Dictionary for iPhone.
Oxford Dictionary is free iOS app published by MobiSystems, Inc.
Junk!
Kpsjr
The free version only lets you look up 1 word a day. Pretty lame and obviously compelling you to buy. No thanks!
I paid $9 for this before it was a subscription.
Soundister
Now you’ve taken away my ability to use this app offline. It’s no longer of any use!
Falls short
Crowbar Man
A quick note on the example sentences. It would be optimal if examples would be drawn from classic examples of good writing. Please watch your blatantly misogynistic language. For “mercenary”, the example sentence is “She’s nothing but a mercenary little gold-digger”. Seeing that the vast majority of professional “mercenaries” are men, it would be easy to come up with a sentence that does not viciously target women”. Perhaps we can refer to a business executive with mercenary tactics; there, it doesn’t even specify gender. I chose the Oxford English Dictionary (not American) because I wanted a definitive source for difficult English words. Interestingly, the strength of this dictionary is in colloquial American words. Although the name “Oxford” evokes the idea of old books and traditional education, if you read classic English literature by famous authors from the 18th or 19th centuries, you would be hard pressed to find definitions on this app. I found it terribly ironic that the Dictionary app or Google has more definitions than OED. I had the same problem with an American novel from the 20th century. It appears that the OED app is focused on modern newspapers and light fiction. I would pay handsomely for an app that has definitions for ALL non-technical English words; yes even the obsolete, archaic, and literary. I have no interest in reading blogs. I like to be able to read any book going as far back as Early Modern English, and find the definitions here.