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expletive

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

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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”).

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