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expletivo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • expletive adj Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.

Senses

expletivo is used for these senses in English:

  • expletive Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
  • expletive (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.

expletive — full definition

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

Related Portuguese words

expletiva