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- [dih-fawlt]
- /dɪˈfɔlt/
- /dɪˈfɒlt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [dih-fawlt]
- /dɪˈfɔlt/
Definitions of default word
- verb default If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it. 3
- verb default Default is also a noun. 3
- adjective default A default situation is what exists or happens unless someone or something changes it. 3
- uncountable noun default In computing, the default is a particular set of instructions which the computer always uses unless the person using the computer gives other instructions. 3
- noun default a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation or to appear in a court of law at a time specified 3
- noun default absence or lack 3
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Origin of default
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; Middle English defau(l)te < Anglo-French defalte, Old French defaute, derivative of defaillir, after faute, faillir. See de-, fault, fail
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Parts of speech for Default
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
default popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
default usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for default
noun default
- delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
- nonpayment — failure or neglect to pay: His property was confiscated for nonpayment of taxes.
- omission — the act of omitting.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
verb default
- welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
- stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- skip — to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
- bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
Antonyms for default
noun default
- abundance — An abundance of something is a large quantity of it.
- plenty — a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time.
- advantage — An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- sufficiency — the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
verb default
- accomplish — If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
- achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
- face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- meet — greatest lower bound
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