Personally, I’m happy with the Free version. In addition to all the free version features, the full Pro version includes 5000 more definitions and numerous extra features including: The comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary includes: For frequent travelers, they ask that people buy the ‘Pro’ version instead.Ī comparison between the free version and the Pro 6 edition ($19). You can read their full expanation of that here.

They ask that the user take no more than two commercial flights (not more than one return flight) in any 12 month period, to help cut down on global greenhouse gas emissions. The free version is fully functional and can be used freely beyond 30 days under one, unusual, condition. Click on “Part of” and WordWeb will tell you that a tree can be part of a “forest” or “wood”. Look up “tree”, click on the “Types” tab and you’ll have a list of different types of tree. The definition box comes up in an instant and, while it doesn’t provide etymology of a word as the Kindle’s does, it gives a decent amount of information.Īs their website says, “… each set of synonyms is linked to other related sets. However, I changed it, in the Options menu, to Ctrl-left-click, which is just more natural for me. The default ‘hot-key’ is ctrl-alt-w or the more intuitive Ctrl-right-click. The free version of this memory-resident program takes up very little memory and processing power and works with everything I’ve tried, whether just browsing or writing this entry in an editing box. So I tried it out, as I’ve enjoyed WordWeb in the past. It has hotkey functionality which allows you to look up any word instantly, from inside any Windows application.

“For a dictionary on Kindle for PC, I would strongly recommend installing WordWeb ( ). In the recent blog article on the updated Kindle for PC app, I wrote that there was no in-line dictionary yet like the one on the Kindle itself, with the summary definition at the bottom of the Kindle screen for the word your cursor might be on and the ability to get the full definition and etymology via the American Oxford Dictionary.

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