expletive
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Adj — Used only to fill out a sentence, adding no real meaning of its own.
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Etymology
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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