Customer Reviews

Franklin MWD-460 Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I agree with all of the negative comments made by previous reviewers, particularly the difficulty of opening the cover. I would add that the keyboard is very difficult to use. When a key is pressed, it gets stuck on one side or the other under the faceplate. If you push it again to unstick it, you generate the same character again.
I recommend that anyone interested in this product handle one in a store before purchase.

The dictionary and thesaurus is too limited to be of much use. Any odd word gets a "correcting" process and gives you other words . I would not recommend this unit above a fifth grader.

I'm a college grad and I bought this dictionary thinking it would be convenient to look up words I didn't know in novels and the like. So far it seems to only have about 50% of the words I've looked up in the memory. Not too helpful, now if you are looking for word definitions like "hedge" - this is for you :)

I've had one of these for over 14 years now, when they first started coming out. My brother has the original one I got freshman year in high school, and I have one I got junior year. This item is still very much the same as it was 14 years ago, just a little sleaker and smaller. Very easy to use, turn on, type the word, and search. It still has thesaurus and games, and as reviews below mention, occasionally still brings up entertaining words if you are as bad of phonetic speller as I am. This item is excellent to save you from digging through pages of a dictionary in search of just a spelling, and not the definition. A must if you can't even get the first 3 letters square like I do looking up words. Most of these models will also play hangman with you, amongst a few other games to try and work with your spelling skills. The spelling ace my brother still has actually contained many definitions. These little machines are worth their weight in gold for highschoolers and college folks writing paper, even with spell check on the computer.

Hard to use.
Hard to open.
Thin, soft rubber keys have to be pressed hard to work. So when entering a word, one or more of the letters usually don't show up. Have to press the keys hard and directly.

To turn it on, you have to hit TWO keys. I expected to just hit the power button, like my older Franklin electronic dictionary.

Too many buttons that just get in the way.

Most of the words I looked up when reading are not there.

Don't buy this unit. Look on....

I am very happy with the dictionary and Thesaurus. However, the lid is poorly manufacutered and difficult to open, making me wonder if the reduced price of the item was because of the cover difficulty.

Just wish it was a bit more complete. Didn't have as many word options in the thesaurus as I'd hoped.

the first three words I typed in to find definitions for it didn't have. Need I say more?

I bought this dictionary as an aide to studying on the train. Unfortunately, it doesn't have all of the words that a standard dictionary or the online dictionaries have.

The construction of this unit is really bad. It is so hard to open the cover. So if you have open it, don't close it untill you are sure that you won't use it for a while.