5.3
2022-11-22
RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• 5500 new words and expressions (micromobility, masago, plogging…)
• 23,500 new pronunciations
• 13,300 new examples
• 1000 new difficulties
• 13,400 new synonyms
• 12,000 new combinations illustrated by 27,200 examples
• 700 new families
• 47,000 new lexical field links
• 5200 new etymologies
• 30 new etymological remarks
• Updated dictionaries (inclusivity, feminine demonyms, etc.)
• Improved control for restricted words and meanings
• New guide articles (Antonyms, Oxymorons and Other Uses of Title Case…)
RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL FRENCH DICTIONARIES
• 800 new words and expressions (micromobilité, tobiko, visiocomparution…)
• 13,200 new pronunciations
• 4200 new examples
• 150 new difficulties
• 4700 new synonyms
• 12,500 new combinations illustrated by 25,700 examples
• 28,000 new lexical field links
• 630 new etymologies
• 40 new etymological remarks
• Updated dictionaries (alternative, exécutif…)
• Improved access control for restricted words and meanings
• New guide articles (Le préfixe anti-, Ces dates qui font date…)
BILINGUAL ADDITIONS
• 40,000 new translations
NEW DISCOVERIES
• New category: discover a selection of recent entries
IMPROVED INTERFACE
• Definitions accessible in other applications (through “Share…”, in the context menu)
• Stage Manager supported (iPadOS 16 required)
• Various modernizations for iOS 16 and iPad OS 16
• Better keyboard and touchpad support on iPadOS
• Various minor fixes
5.2.3
2022-09-12
• Compatibility with iOS 16
• New control for looking up a copied string (iOS 16 only)
• Better handling of drag-and-drop
• Correction of various anomalies
5.2.2
2022-07-05
• Various minor fixes
5.2.1
2022-05-11
• Various minor fixes
5.2
2022-04-13
RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL FRENCH DICTIONARIES
• New search by criteria: 17 combinable criteria
• 1500 new words (exolune, faufilade, illiquide)
• 31,000 new pronunciations
• 500 new difficulties
• 8000 new synonyms
• 1300 new etymologies
• Refinement of content access criteria
RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
• New search by criteria: 17 combinable criteria
• 4300 new words (doomscrolling, bioprinter, cheugy)
• 25,000 new pronunciations
• 1300 new difficulties
• 13,700 new synonyms
• 700 new families
• 4100 new etymologies
• Refinement of content access criteria
NEW BILINGUAL FEATURES
• 11,000 new translations of words and expressions
AN IMPROVED INTERFACE
• Pronunciation of words in secondary panels
• External link results displayed in Antidote (e.g., external resources)
• Better VoiceOver support
• “Share” option in the editing context menu
• Redesigned dialogs
• Support for non-Gregorian calendars for date validation
• Better Live Text integration with search
• Better support for the ESC key (external keyboard)
• Adaptation for the new Antidote+ free trial mode
• Various improvements
5.1.1
2022-01-18
• Improved stability in some dictionaries (e.g. rhymes, combinations) when selecting a font size smaller than the default value
5.1
2021-12-10
• Search for one or more words from a photo using Live Text technology in iOS 15*
• Improved language detection when searching for a copied word or with a Siri shortcut
• New sorting options in the Combinations, Rhymes, Semantic Field and Family dictionaries
• Automatic selection of the entry word with a single keystroke on a physical keyboard
• New pronunciations in the results for rhymes (entry word + rhyme, rhyme + entry word, rhyme only)
• iOS 15 adaptations
• Updated dictionaries
• Various minor fixes
*on compatible devices
5.0.1
2021-11-11
• Stabilized display of phonetic transcriptions
• Various minor fixes
5.0
2021-10-19
NEW FOR ENGLISH
___ New Features for Definitions Dictionary
• Pronunciation of words and their inflected forms (accents from London and Toronto)*
• 5000 new words (smishing, cleantech, non-fungible token)
• Option to highlight prepositions
• 20,000 new examples
• 5000 new difficulties
• New 2020 and 2021 World Heritage Sites
• Display of all homophones in the difficulties
• New optional external resources
• Simplified sorting of expressions
___ New Rhymes Dictionary
• Perfect and imperfect rhymes
• Near rhymes (assonances, consonances, etc.)
• Multiple filters: category, syllables, frequency, family, labels
• Text filter
• Semantic fields filter
___ Richer Dictionaries and Guides
• 11,000 new synonyms
• Simplified display of synonyms lists
• 80,000 new word combinations
• Cross-combinations
• Collateral adjectives added to the families (e.g., smell > osmic)
• 4000 new etymologies
• 100 new etymological notes
• 118,000 new etymologically related words
• 10 new guide articles
NEW FOR FRENCH
___New Features for Definitions Dictionary
• Pronunciation of words and their inflected forms (accents from Paris and Montréal)*
• Option to highlight prepositions
• 20,000 new examples
• 3000 new words (monosourcil, écoanxiété, vaccinodrome)
• 12,500 new difficulties
• New 2020 and 2021 World Heritage Sites
• Display of all homophones in the difficulties
• New optional external resources
___ New Rhymes Dictionary
• Near-rhymes (assonance, consonance, etc.)
• Multi-word rhymes
• Multiple filters: category, syllables, frequency, gender, family, labels
• Text filter
• Semantic fields filter
___ Richer Dictionaries and Guides
• 30,000 new synonyms
• Simplified display of synonyms lists
• 5000 new word combinations
• Cross-combinations
• Collateral adjectives added to the families (e.g., renard > vulpin)
• Rhythmic recitation of conjugations*
• 2500 new etymologies
• 37 new etymological notes
• 150,000 new etymologically related words
• 15 new guide articles
NEW FOR BOTH LANGUAGES
• 100,000 new translations of words and expressions
___ Improved Interface
• iOS 15 compatibility
• Improved operation with a physical keyboard
• Option to activate keyboard on startup
• Various minor fixes
* Internet connection required
4.1.3
2021-05-20
• Elimination of an unnecessary reauthentication
4.1.2
2021-04-13
• Improved authentication handling with Sign in with Apple
• Improved authentication stability
4.1.1
2021-04-06
• Various minor fixes
4.1
2021-03-19
ENGLISH
• 700 new words and expressions (flexitarian, kirigami, fear of missing out)
• 1200 new phonetic transcriptions
• 7000 new synonyms
• 600 new etymologies
• 16,000 new etymologically related words
• 4 new guide articles
FRENCH
• 500 new words and expressions (solopreneur, tabi, jardin de pluie)
• 500 new phonetic transcriptions
• 13,000 new synonyms
• 200 new etymologies
• 15,000 new etymologically related words
• 6 new guide articles
BILINGUAL
• 5500 new translations
• Display of translations in secondary definitions
• Display of translations in discoveries
INTERFACE
• Ability to export favourites in CSV or URL format
• Ability to move favourites between lists
• Handling of “Scribble” in games
• Improvements to context menus when a word is selected
• Various improvements
4.0.1
2020-12-04
Version 4.0.1
• Updated dictionaries
• Handling of accents in the URLs of external resources
• Various minor fixes
Version 4.0
GENERAL
• New bilingual application
• Available as part of Antidote+
• Synchronization with Antidote 10 and Antidote Web (with Antidote+ plan)
• Sign-in using Druide account, Apple Sign In, Google, etc.
INTERFACE
• Full dark mode support
• 14 Siri shortcuts: definitions, synonyms, etc.
• Adaptation to dynamic fonts
• Updated display
• Handling of new external keyboard (Magic)
• Simplified interaction
• Clear shortcuts to all functions
• Standardized icons
FRENCH
—— Definitions
• More than 6000 new words and expressions (animoji, gyroroue, coefficient synaptique)
• Epidemic and remote work vocabulary (prépandémie, déconfiner, cours bimodal)
• New World Heritage sites
• 2500 new difficulties
• 650 new maps
• More powerful instant search menu (expressions, parts of expressions, etc.)
• Relative frequency of inflection variants (e.g. auteure/autrice)
• Relative frequency of phonetic variants (e.g. calmar/calamar)
• Note on the preposition required before names of islands (e.g. Fidji)
• Plural forms added to 9000 noun expressions
—— Synonyms
• 33,000 new synonyms
• Display of the hierarchy of hyponyms and hypernyms
• Sort by relevance, frequency or length
• Filter for synonyms without labels (not informal, not regional, etc.)
• Filter for strong, weak or neutral synonyms
• Links to additional hyponyms
—— Combinations
• 40,000 new combinations
• 70,000 new examples
• Notes on language register
—— Semantic fields
• 260,000 new links
—— History
• 3600 new etymologies
• 175,000 new etymologically related words
• 100 new etymology notes
—— Guides
• Cleaner display
• 57 new articles (880 in total)
• Creation of article lists
ENGLISH
—— Definitions
• More than 16,000 new words and expressions (pegan, upcycle, anthropolatric)
• Epidemic and remote work vocabulary (superspreader, community transmission, teleworking)
• 12,000 new difficulties
• New World Heritage sites
• 500 new maps
• Note on appropriate article (a/an) for difficult words (e.g. history)
• Note on words which may require the subjunctive (e.g. advice)
• Note on required use of infinitive or gerund after certain verbs (e.g. thank)
• Note on contracted form of auxiliaries (e.g. shan’t)
• Expanded presentation of inflections and phonetics
—— Synonyms
• Close to 200,000 new synonyms
• Display of the hierarchy of hyponyms and hypernyms
• Sort by relevance, frequency or length
• Filter for synonyms without labels (not informal, not regional, etc.)
• Filter for strong, weak or neutral synonyms
—— Antonyms
• 128,000 antonyms in 32,000 entries
• Display by sense groups
—— Combinations
• 48,000 new combinations
• Notes on language register
—— Semantic fields
• Close to 475,000 new links
• Semantic fields for proper nouns
—— History
• 9500 new etymologies
• 335,000 new etymologically related words
• 40 new etymology notes
—— Guides
• 150 new articles (508 in total)
• Cleaner display
• Creation of article lists
BILINGUAL
• All the content of both languages together
• Language toggle in guides and dictionaries
• Instant search with smart toggle
• Clipboard search with smart toggle
• Settings for each language
• Favourites and history for each language
• More than 2.6 million translations
• Translation of all words and their various senses
• Translation of all expressions
• Translation of all proverbs
• Translation of all combinations, with examples
• New “Translated by” search