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Shinkai-san: A Quirky Dictionary - cjon256 - 2009-11-02
There are actually two dictionaries that do target this market although they just are not purely monodics. Here's a link to one of the two:
http://dictionary.sanseido-publ.co.jp/dicts/ja/foreiner_hpja/index.html
It has a sample page (見本ページ) so you can check it out. I think you'll agree that while it is not purely a monodic, it comes pretty close.
C.J.
Shinkai-san: A Quirky Dictionary - Jarvik7 - 2009-11-02
That looks nice, but it's completely useless. It has only 750 words (from JLPT4) listed in it...
What's the other book?
Shinkai-san: A Quirky Dictionary - fugu68 - 2009-11-02
I spotted this one in the library a while back, which again is close to a monolingual dictionary (definitions in Japanese, with very terse English/Chinese glosses).
日本語を学ぶ人の辞典 ISBN 4107302113
Not sure if it's been updated very recently though.
Shinkai-san: A Quirky Dictionary - cjon256 - 2009-11-03
Yeah, that the other one.
It has 11,000 words.
It is from 1995 and there is no update that I'm aware of, but it has essentially zero fashionable words/definitions, so I'm not sure how much of a concern it being more than 10 years old is. To clarify, I mean that most of the words it defines are not the kind of words that change meaning significantly in that time span.
C.J.
Shinkai-san: A Quirky Dictionary - ocircle - 2010-05-16
Thanks for the dictionary file (first post) and the linguos link (second post). It seems to be working quite well, and it is Japanese only
