Expletive

Adjective

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

Synonyms

 * expletory

Noun

 * 1)  A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.


 * 1)  A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.


 * 1) A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.

Adjectives for Expletive
muttered; raucous; exasperated; choice; foul-mouthed; energetic; unmeaning.

Thesaurus
battology, bedizenment, blurt, curse, cuss, cuss word, de trop, dirty name, dirty word, dispensable, duplication, duplication of effort, dysphemism, ecphonesis, ejaculation, embellishment, epithet, excess, exclamation, expendable, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filler, filling, foul invective, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, gratuitous, in excess, iterative, luxury, macrology, naughty word, needless, needlessness, no-no, nonessential, oath, obscenity, ornamentation, outburst, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, pleonastic, profane oath, prolix, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, redundant, reiterative, repetitious, spare, stammering, stuttering, supererogatory, superfluity, superfluous, superfluousness, swear, swearword, tautologic, tautological, tautologism, tautologous, tautology, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessariness, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose, verbosity, wordy

Etymology
From expletivus:, from  expletus:, the perfect passive participle of expleo:, itself from ex: + *undefined:.

Adjective

 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: -, täyttävä


 * Dutch: expletief, vol krachttermen


 * : explétif

Noun

 * Dutch: vulsel, opvulling


 * Finnish: täytesana


 * Dutch: expletief (woord)


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch: krachtterm, verwensing, vloek
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:, sadattelu


 * French:
 * Norwegian: banneord
 * Tagalog:


 * : explétif
 * : dolguluk