About The Word Expletive
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Expletive
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What's The Definition Of Expletive?
[n] profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
[n] a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line Synonyms | Synonyms for Expletive: curse | curse word | cuss | oath | swearing | swearword Related Terms | Find terms related to Expletive: battology | bedizenment | blurt | curse | cuss | cuss word | de trop | dirty name | dirty word | dispensable | duplication | duplication of effort | dysphemism | ecphonesis | ejaculation | embellishment | epithet | excess | exclamation | expendable | extravagance | fat | featherbedding | filler | filling | foul invective | frill | frills | frippery | gingerbread | gratuitous | in excess | iterative | luxury | macrology | naughty word | needless | needlessness | nonessential | no-no | oath | obscenity | ornamentation | outburst | overadornment | overlap | padding | payroll padding | pleonasm | pleonastic | profane oath | prolix | prolixity | redundance | redundancy | redundant | reiterative | repetitious | spare | stammering | stuttering | supererogatory | superfluity | superfluous | superfluousness | swear | swearword | tautologic | tautological | tautologism | tautologous | tautology | to spare | uncalled-for | unessential | unnecessariness | unnecessary | unneeded | verbose | verbosity | wordy See Also | profanity | utterance | vocalization Expletive In Webster's Dictionary \Ex"ple*tive\, a. [L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p.
of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus
full: cf. F. expl['e]tif. See {Full}.]
Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling
up; superfluous. ``Expletive imagery.'' --Hallam.
Expletive phrases to plump his speech. --Barrow.
\Ex"ple*tive\, n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. --Pope. |
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