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expletive🔊

Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.

📑 Synonyms: expletory

Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).

A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.

📑 Synonyms: swear word oath

(linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.

(linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.

📑 Synonyms: intensifier