default

1. 1.

   fail to pay up

   Synonymsdefault on

   Antonymspay up

   Broaderfail

Other forms of default

plural

defaults·

past tense

defaulted·

present participle

defaulting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about default

What does default mean?

default means "loss due to not showing up". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in default?

default has 2 syllables: de-fault. The stress falls on "fault". In IPA it is /dɪˈfɔlt/.

What is another word for default?

Close synonyms include nonpayment, nonremittal, nonpayment, nonremittal, default option. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of default?

The recorded antonyms are pay up.

Is default a common word?

default is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with default?

1 word rhymes with default. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.