DEFAULT (ON) Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

default (on)

verb

Definition of default (on)

as in to pass over

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Under pressure on third down, the senior quarterback scrambled and then threw a late pass over the middle.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Chang was steadily promoted before he was passed over for the position of chief executive, perhaps for bamboo-ceiling reasons.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of pass over

Verb

When custodians ignore or slow-walk responses, our FOIA rights diminish.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
While Florida’s legislatures have largely ignored a 2014 constitutional amendment voters approved to direct land sales taxes toward conservation, there have been several big land conservation pushes at the state level since then.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignore

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Yet what follows is an extended list of ethical sins, with a focus on the sins of abusive speech, such as slandering, slurring, slighting and smearing the reputations of others.

— Reuven Kimelman, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
The other four QBs peaked inside the top 10 last season, so they’ve all been slighted to a degree with the initial rankings of 2026.

— Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of slight

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Would Azriel, the third and final bad-boy faerie of the Night Court’s royal family, end up with Elain, the unhappy and often forgotten youngest sister of the Night Court’s High Lady, Feyre?

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Don’t forget that many of the prewar family-size apartments all over the Upper West Side were chopped up into multiple units during the Great Depression, too.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of forget

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But in a new essay in Foreign Affairs, McRaven focuses not on the potential of military force but on its limits—limits that American policymakers frequently disregard, at immense cost.

— William H. McRaven, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2026
Their attorneys argued that commissioners disregarded professional review and relied instead on generalized neighborhood opposition.

— Sarah Kinbar, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of disregard

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City officials compiled the information after Nelson raised concerns that older neighborhoods had been neglected in favor of newer parts of Roseville.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
An Overland Park mother who authorities charged with murder in the 2023 death of her 1-year-old child, alleging the toddler was malnourished and neglected, has pleaded no contest to a group of charges.

— Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026

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