kodiak Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Hello, I use the dictionary feature a lot, and I think it would be great to have the option to view the full definition right in Alfred, instead of a single line which rarely ever provides useful insights. This makes me open the Dictionary app every time, which is very inefficient. This is the default Spotlight behavior (phrases using the word and etymology are also included, and it's really useful) and it works well. Lacona does this too. Thanks! bikeNik, kenanmike, Yaz and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srb1961 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Was looking for the same topic, so trying to bump this. Is there any way of increasing the results window for "define" so that more of the definition could appear? The results are usually not useful because they are so cut off. Edited August 1, 2020 by vitor Reduced font size and cleaned up formatting Yaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 On 7/31/2020 at 7:19 PM, srb1961 said: Is there any way of increasing the results window for "define" so that more of the definition could appear? What might work nicely would be if Alfred showed the full definition in its Large Type window (i.e. you press ⌘L on a result). llityslife and Yaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaz Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 @kodiak I concur! On 8/1/2020 at 9:30 PM, deanishe said: What might work nicely would be if Alfred showed the full definition in its Large Type window (i.e. you press ⌘L on a result). Yes! This would be a good alternative to the definition showing in the Alfred panel/window (however, it might not be practical in some cases as some word definitions are multiple and long). A perfect implementation (imo) would be spotlight-like in-window scrollable definition with the option of displaying definitions from 1 or more dictionaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pennyworth Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) This has a demo for such a workflow. Dictionary with large preview pane. (the dictionary part of code is way too messy to share right now, but you can play around with the preview pane) Update: Edited November 11, 2020 by Mr Pennyworth Add workflow post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredpanda Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Bumping this. Any chance the native dictionary functionality will be improved to show the results without needing to open the separate app? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ymwu Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 +1 again. Tried a few other workflows but a bit too cumbersome for this single feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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