expletive

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

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

Noun

1. A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
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 (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
4. An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).

Concetti

parolaccia

imprecazione

maledizione

eresia

espletivo

giaculatoria

moccolo

pleonastico

riempitivo

sozzeria

bestemmia

espletiva

sinonimi

curse

cuss

curse word

swear word

dirty word

oath

swearword

invective

insult

s-word

four-letter word

malediction

swearing

swear-word

cursed

profanity

redundant

expletive stone

copulate

compensative

accessary

wordy

exclamation

❗

dummy head

admiration

Traduzioni

juron

explétif

Schimpfwort

zêf

kufrî

xeber

dijmîn

gros mot

çêrr

Fluch

dijûn

zêv

mirqî

sixêf

expletivo

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɪkˈspliːtɪv/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Late Latin explētīvus (“serving to fill out”), from Latin explētus, the perfect passive participle of expleō (“fill out”), itself from ex (“out, completely”) + *pleō (“fill”).