expletive

Meaning of expletive

noun
  1. A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
    If we don't take advantage of any [expletive] in any way, then it's our loss.
  2. A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
  3. A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.
adjective
  1. Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
  2. Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).

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Hyphenation of expletive

ex-ple-tive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • expletive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

expletive synonyms

Meaning curse:

curse, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss

Meaning :

intensifier, expletory

Words that rhyme with expletive

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