If you are using the Dictionary Online, please see our search help to ensure you have searched the whole dictionary. We have a Wildcard search that can be used to perform a more efficient search of the dictionary.
If you are using a print dictionary, we suggest checking if the word is in the online dictionary as this is the most comprehensive and up to date version available. In every dictionary range there is the complete version from which smaller and smaller dictionaries are carved out. For each of these smaller dictionaries the editor has to make hard decisions about what to leave out for reasons of space.
If you still can’t find the word you’re looking for, you can suggest that we add it to the Macquarie Dictionary using our Suggest a word feature.