diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/PathMatchConfigurer.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/PathMatchConfigurer.java
index 9eca10f1cc..113d59cfb3 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/PathMatchConfigurer.java
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/PathMatchConfigurer.java
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public class PathMatchConfigurer {
 	/**
 	 * Whether to use suffix pattern match (".*") when matching patterns to
 	 * requests. If enabled a method mapped to "/users" also matches to "/users.*".
-	 * <p>By default this is set to {@code true}.
+	 * <p>By default this is set to {@code false}.
 	 * <p><strong>Note:</strong> This property is mutually exclusive with and
 	 * ignored when {@link #setPatternParser(PathPatternParser)} is set.
 	 * @deprecated as of 5.2.4. See class-level note in