Sesquipedalianism – or why do I need a dictionary?

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Dictionary

pronunciation: dIk sha neI ri

part of speech: noun
inflections: dictionaries

definition 1: a reference work that contains a list of words of a particular language, usu. in alphabetical order and supplemented with information about the spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of each word.

definition 2: the electronic form of such a list of words, often without meanings or other information.
The word processor has a dictionary that only provides correct spellings.

definition 3: a book that contains information on a specific group or class of words or subjects.
a legal dictionary

related words: thesaurus

Got the idea? Wordsmyth is an online dictionary and a lot more. The site has dozens of features, but most of them are for subscribers – i.e. PAYING SUBSCRIBERS. However, my friends, don’t let that dissuade you, for there are many great features you can access pro bono, for nothing, free and all that.

The dictionary is free as are the crossword puzzle solver (you cheater, you!), reverse search (whatever you’d need that for), anagram solver, and a bunch more stuff that, if you’re so inclined and interested, you can visit the site to look around.

We don’t know what you think, but we’re pretty tired of looking up words like “sesquipedalian” and being bombarded with less-than-erudite advertisements that disturb our academic mood and our immersive search for knowledge (EB aside). So we, (I) use Wordsmyth because I get the definitions I want and I’m surrounded by an ocean of academia which I absolutely misjudged as a youth as worthless. Little did I know how easy an education can make life. If I had pursued a master’s degree or a doctorate, I could be making zillions of dollars and not be sitting here, in this stuffy office, with no air conditioning, drinking warm, rusty water, and using a toilet that makes you shake the handle to get it to stop. If only I knew what I know now, when I was younger, I’d be a rich rogue toying with pretty ladies on the yachts of the rich and famous drinking single-malt scotch from handmade, pretty blue cobalt goblets, loved and revered for my scathing wit and droll humor. I’m liking that word, are you?

Alas, age has stifled most of my dreams save for the one about dying peacefully in my sleep. There’s still hope for that one to come true. The pretty ladies, single-malt scotch, cobalt-clue goblets and yachts of the rich and famous, not so much.

Before the men in the white coats some to take me away for drifting so far away from the point of this article, suffice it to say:

If you’re looking for a good online dictionary with a lot of features (not all of them free) you should do what I do because you probably aren’t drinking single-malt scotch from cobalt-clue goblets on the decks of yachts owned by the rich and famous, surrounded by pretty ladies (if you’re male) or chipmunks(?) sorry, EB says Chippendales (if you’re female) either. And I do solemnly apologize to all the English teachers I’ve ever had in my entire life for the previous sentence.