Perhaps your elementary school teachers taught you how to decipher the pronunciation symbols provided by the dictionary, but…perhaps not. If you don’t want to reach for your mouse, press Command-L to jump immediately to the definition.įor more options-like the ability to look for synonyms-select the Dictionary entry (or press Command-D), and the Dictionary application will open to your word. Instead, simply hover your cursor over the entry and a pop-up menu will appear with the full definition. You don’t have to select this and press Return. One of your results will be ‘Look Up’ next to the Dictionary icon. Press Command-spacebar to activate it, and then type in the word you need defined.
Tap any word to enjoy a rich variety of synonyms and expressions to find the perfect. Use SpotlightĪnother quick way to look up a word is by using the Spotlight search menu. With Ginger, the AI-powered writing assistant, correct your texts. Select Look Up in Dictionary (or Look Up) and the definition appears.
In most applications, you can instead select a word and Control-click (or right-click). Say you’ve forgotten the Command-Control-D shortcut already.
