How often would you say you look things up in the dictionary?

[Still-alive]

How often do you come across words you’re unfamiliar with and resort to looking it up?

Just about daily

Id say once a week

Once a month

Not that often

I hardly ever look words up

I dont need to look things up cause im a badass 😎

[Rosexøxø]

I really thought this was just for the online one. Comments surprised me.

I had a pocket one, my dad FLUNG at me and encouraged me to keep. I read some. It’s not the most thrilling book to read… “sorry dad!” 😰😂

I use the online one whenever I see something new (so that varies)

and whenever I rarely engage a profound conversation- and I JUST DONT KNOW, but sometimes I just feel like I’ll think up a word I’ve NEVER used, and in my gut it feels right, and I’ll then google it- turns out it was the perfect word and meant exactly what I had imagined.

That was some weird luck for sure. I think some words I felt were just appropriate, and it was a variation of a word I had known, but I wouldn’t be sure if it was even a word- again, I’d find it to be a word meaning what I had assumed. 😃👍

That would be truly rare, and that gift has died down. 🧐

Sometimes Autocorrect will give me insanely wild words, which I’ll have to check, and it can be quite fun doing so.

Just the other day, I learned about a new Greek Individual in the mythology, and it was fascinating. Some of the words I can’t even believe, are words because they will start with various letters hardly used like- [ i ] and some of them have all the odd accompaniment of letters like [ i ] with [ x ] or

[ W ] [ S ] [ X ] [ P ]

and it baffles me all the time.

Do I look up words a lot? Neh, not really.

I’ve lost the “mindfulness,” to check all the time: my spelling and those guessing words, so I’ll have a few people correct me. 🤣

Good times.

[Rosexøxø]

I’ll just say hardly 🌚🌝

[Cynicaldreamer]

Not as often as I did before the internet came out. I still do, but mostly for medical jargon used at my job.

Fun fact- I still have a dictionary and encyclopedias at home from grade school. Old school when we had to write research papers and we didn't have the internet to "google" stuff.

[LiamJHayden]

Probably about once per week, usually one here when a word gets used in a way that sounds off to me. Most of the time I am right, but sometimes the question / response is correct because the word has a secondary or tertiary meaning of which I was formerly unaware. I like learning new stuff.

[matchrestore]

I'll google stuff, but most of the time I'm looking up industry specific technical jargon, and the dictionary wouldn't be much help.

[melanieeeB]

Does translation dictionary count?
If so, then daily!!! Hahaha
I mix up words so often! I will start a german conversation and then 1-5 words I only know in English, so I have to look up what's the german word for it... I start answering here and I have to do the same the other way around and so on and so on...
Sometimes I just remember a word and wanna know the full meaning behind it before using

[chadbdullah]

Well, I mostly do it since I started to learn English. It's been 9 months since I started. I am learning English as my third language, but I can say it's pretty easy compared to German. I don't need a dictionary to check for the words as often as I did when I was learning German.

[msmissydc]

Nearly daily I would say. Not as often in a sense of not knowing a word, but to quote a definition from the dictionary. That being said I do write for my work.

[Petr87]

Not very often. Hardly ever, in fact, unless it's some new term that only recently popped up in popular culture, or an old word that has been given a new meaning, like "cancel", "woke", and "gender".

[purplepoppy]

I'll use online dictionaries quite a lot. I like to know the etymology of words.

[Apple1996]

I use Google but maybe once a week/every 2 weeks I look up a word

[menina]

Not as often. I used to look up more when I was younger. Not that I know everything now, but I haven't been looking it up that much.

[whirled_up_girl]

I used to do that all the time now I just Google it and look for the online dictionary.

[SnowedIn]

That comic cracked me up.

At least once a week; sometimes more.

[NostalgiaSenpi]

I use Google in the same manner, once or thrice a week.

[Sparkie460]

I haven't used a dictionary in years. That's what the internet is for

[Mayo503]

It’s called Google lol hope that helps if you can believe it

[AsaKyo]

I do that a lot to make sure I'm using the word I just said correctly lmaoo

[Guardian45]

I regularly look up words online in various dictionaries. My favorites are Merriam-Webster, Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary.

[petitedollbabee]

I just use google 🤷🏻‍♀️

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Just about daily

[beebella]

I just use Google, tbh. 😂

[Dinosaursandanime65]

I don’t think we even have one