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Originally Posted by HarryT
The Kobo's dictionaries are extremely poor. They're probably OK for a child, or someone learning English as a foreign language, but for an adult with a good vocabulary who wants to know the meaning of obscure words, they're pretty much a waste of time.
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I can't judge the bilingual dictionaries, as I don't use them, but the monolingual English dictionary isn't *that* bad, surely?
English is my second language, but after reading 300-odd English books a year for almost 40 years, a word needs to be obscure indeed to be new to me. And yes, the Oxford dictionary Amazon uses for the Kindle is better than the Kobo dictionary, and the Chambers I used is better still, but the Kobo one does the job reasonably well.
I wouldn't call it 'a waste of time'.