I’m looking for something to quickly lookup word definitions. My ideal workflow is this: press button to launch modal, enter word (or grab from clipboard), definition appears, exit modal.

So far, rofi-dictionary seems like the closest thing, but it’s only for the (non-free) Oxford dictionary for some odd reason.

Hopefully this is the right community of this! It’s the closest I could think up anyway…

  • printerhell@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Assuming rofi-dictionary does what you need it to. What dictionary do you want to use? Seems like we could download an offline one and change the code. Thoughts?

    Edit : i just realized this is a yr old. Did you find a solution?

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOP
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      1 month ago

      Edit : i just realized this is a yr old. Did you find a solution?

      Not one I’m totally satisfied with, but I’m using Quick Lookup on desktop (which uses Wiktionary) and Poet Assistant on mobile (not part of the original scope, but anyway).

      Assuming rofi-dictionary does what you need it to. What dictionary do you want to use? Seems like we could download an offline one and change the code. Thoughts?

      Agreed I’d prefer an offline dictionary, though not sure where to get this. The scripts look simple enough that they could be adapted to whatever source one finds…