default judgment

Questions about default judgment

What is another word for default judgment?

It depends which default judgment you mean. In the sense “a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)”, the synonyms are default judgement, judgment by default, judgement by default. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of default judgment?

WordNet records no antonym for default judgment. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for default judgment come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of default judgment

• Full entry for default judgmentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for default judgmentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.