expletive

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

vloek

vulsel

krachtterm

opvulling

stopwoord

verwensing

expletief

overtollig

opvullend

Synoniemen

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

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɪkˈspliːtɪv/

Etymologie (Engels)

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”).