default — OAT

default

noun

1 the recession has been accompanied by a rise in the incidence of defaults on loans:

nonpayment, failure to pay, nonremittance;

informal welshing, bilking;

British, archaic levant.

▷antonyms repayment.

2 I became a TV host by default, rather than by design | in default of evidence:

failure to act/appear, inaction, omission, lapse, lack, exclusion, neglect, negligence, disregard;

want, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, absence, nonappearance.

adjective

tuna pasta is definitely my default choice for dinners cooked at home:

normal, standard, usual, typical, stock, ordinary, customary, conventional, habitual, accustomed, expected, wonted, everyday, regular, routine, established, settled, set;

unvarying, invariable, unchanging, changeless, unvaried;

consistent, constant, stable, steady, static, uniform, predictable, obvious;

favorite, choice, preferred, ideal;

instinctive, automatic, involuntary, unconscious, reflex, knee-jerk, mechanical;

spontaneous, impulsive, unthinking, unpremeditated, unintentional, unintended, unbidden, unwitting, inadvertent;

informal gut.

▷antonyms atypical, varying, conscious, deliberate.

verb

1 the dealer can repossess the goods if the customer defaults:

fail to pay, not pay, renege, fail to honor, back out, backtrack, backslide;

break one's promise/word, go back on one's word;

informal welsh, bilk.

▷antonyms repay.

2 when you start a fresh letter, the program will default to its own style:

revert;

select automatically.