Reviews for Dictionary Anywhere
Dictionary Anywhere by meetDeveloper
Review by brd2184
Rated 4 out of 5
by brd2184, 5 years agoProblem with all words searched giving "Sorry, no definition found." resolved idiopathically. I am running Linux with a VPN, though.
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Handy for words that you kind of know, but kind of know there's more to the definition.
Would be neat if you could toggle what the More>> link does. Thinking along the lines of a thesaurus library that could be accessed without opening a new search for "define xyz".
Though, the primary utility of the app seems to be in obtaining definitions with minimal interruption and task switching, so maybe less is more.
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Handy for words that you kind of know, but kind of know there's more to the definition.
Would be neat if you could toggle what the More>> link does. Thinking along the lines of a thesaurus library that could be accessed without opening a new search for "define xyz".
Though, the primary utility of the app seems to be in obtaining definitions with minimal interruption and task switching, so maybe less is more.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoAre you connecting to some VPN?
Can you give me words for which it is returning this error, 'No definition found'?
Also can you if possible provide your geolocation, I mean country, I want to confirm if it is not working because google give different result for other country.
Sorry for inconvenience. I want to look into problem and fix it asap, I fixed some problem in v1.0.8 and then it started working for me and few others, I think there is another problem.
- Reply 2:
So I wanted to give as little as possible which is meaningful as I don't want to clutter person view, it is minimalist approach. I am working towards fixing little bugs present in extension and will after then focus on features after considerable thoughts regarding the features as I have designed this extension to be minimalist.
Can you give me words for which it is returning this error, 'No definition found'?
Also can you if possible provide your geolocation, I mean country, I want to confirm if it is not working because google give different result for other country.
Sorry for inconvenience. I want to look into problem and fix it asap, I fixed some problem in v1.0.8 and then it started working for me and few others, I think there is another problem.
- Reply 2:
So I wanted to give as little as possible which is meaningful as I don't want to clutter person view, it is minimalist approach. I am working towards fixing little bugs present in extension and will after then focus on features after considerable thoughts regarding the features as I have designed this extension to be minimalist.
523 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14305712, 19 hours agoWhen it works it's fine. Unfortunately, it is not very comprehensive: it doesn't work a lot of the time for scientific words. Also I understand it is meant to be nonintrusive but sometimes the definition given is too simple to where I end up searching the word anyway.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ferro, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HedgehogInTheCPP, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 🌱 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙚『ジュソレ』✊, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12363114, 2 months agoNo record of the installation. Double Click on word opened a window. I never go a single definition to show. All say "No Definition"
Would have been a useful addin but its missing a couple of functional elements, one of which is definitions or any clue as to where it's searching. - Rated 5 out of 5by Hollytryx, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BISWAJIT, 3 months agoThis extension helps me in getting the exact word meaning by double clicking on the word without opening another tab and it is same as google dictionary thank you.
- Rated 1 out of 5by eggsandoatmeal, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095826, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AbdA, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by rundnbis, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jay, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18916828, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18864233, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18909097, 4 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by RiffRaffMama, 5 months agoIt's good sometimes, but more often than not it can't find a definition, which doesn't make it a particularly comprehensive dictionary. And if a word is a plural or any kind of variation, it can't find it either, just the simple form of the word, and there's no way to get a definition by highlighting a word without the 's' or whatever on the end, because you have to double click, which naturally highlights the entire word.
There's just too many words it can't find. - Rated 1 out of 5by InnocuousOctopus, 5 months agoNo longer functional. If this is fixed I will be revising my review to give the extention the 5 stars it deserves when it is functional.
For those struggling to find a replacement as I was:
Definer by Lumetrium:
- seems to fulfill the same purpose in a more aesthetically pleasing package. - Rated 1 out of 5by Unknown__, 5 months agoHasn't been working for a while, keeps saying definition not found