English Explanatory Dictionary

defaultist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or relating to defaultism.

noun

One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.

Word forms

defaultist defaultists

Etymology

From default + -ist.

Antonyms

contextualist

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