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defaultists

defaultists is the plural of defaultist.

Meaning of defaultist

Noun

defaultist (plural defaultists)

  1. One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
    • A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".
    Antonyms:
    contextualist

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Questions about defaultists

What is defaultists the plural of?
Defaultists is the plural of defaultist.

Words near defaultists in the dictionary

  1. defaulters
  2. defaulting
  3. defaultings
  4. defaultism
  5. defaultist
  6. defaultists
  7. defaultless
  8. defaultly
  9. defaults
  10. defaunate
  11. defaunated

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