expletive

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Synonyms: sexpletive, explosive, expletion, expletives, exploitive, expiative, expective, excretive, depletive, repletive, explete

Antonyms: sexpletive, explosive, expletion, expletives, exploitive, expiative, expective, excretive, depletive, repletive, explete

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Adjective

1. Serving to [[fill up]], merely for [[effect]], otherwise redundant.
2. Marked by expletives ([[phrase]]-[[filler]]s).

Noun

1. {{senseid|en|swear word, bad word}} A [[profane]], [[vulgar]] term, notably a [[curse]] or [[obscene]] [[oath]].
2. {{senseid|en|dummy word, syntactically}} {{lb|en|linguistics}} A [[word]] without [[meaning]] added to fill a [[syntactic]] [[position]].
3. {{senseid|en|strengthening word, intensifier}} {{lb|en|linguistics}} A word that adds to the [[strength]] of a [[phrase]] without affecting its meaning {{ng|(such as ''[[fucking]]'' in "there's no fucking way he's gonna get away with it")}}.
4. {{senseid|en|offensive interjection}} An [[obscene]] or otherwise [[offensive]] [[interjection]] {{ng|(such as ''[[shit#interjection|shit]]'', ''[[fuck#interjection|fuck]]'', or ''[[damn it#interjection|damn it]]'')}}.

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