English Explanatory Dictionary

contextualist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, pertaining to, or supporting contextualism
noun
  1. A proponent of contextualism, or the importance of context.
  2. One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from contextual inference, not from a default association with a word.

Word forms

contextualist contextualists

Etymology

From contextual + -ist.

Antonyms

defaultist
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