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Definition of Expletive

1. Noun. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. "Expletives were deleted"

2. Noun. A word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line.

Definition of Expletive

1. a. Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.

2. n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.

Definition of Expletive

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expletive

explanate explanation explanations explanative explanatively explanatorily explanatory explant explant explantation

explantation explantations explanted explanting explants expletive (current term) expletives expletory explicable explicably

explicandum explicate explicated explicates explicating explication explications explication de texte explicative explicatively

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