Expletive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPLETIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a swearword
• an oath or swear word
• a word or phrase used to fill out a sentence or a line of verse without adding to the sense.
• A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
• profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
• a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
• swearword
ADJECTIVE:
• filling out
• (of a word or phrase) serving to fill out a sentence or line of verse.
• Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
• expressing no particular meaning, esp when filling out a line of verse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense; a word (as it in “make it clear which you prefer”) that occupies the position of the subject or object of a verb in normal English word order and anticipates a subsequent word or phrase that supplies the needed meaningful content; an exclamatory word or phrase; one that is obscene or profane

Words related to EXPLETIVE

expletively26 expletives22 expletory21 swearword16

Words that contain EXPLETIVE

expletives22 expletively26

How to use EXPLETIVE in a sentence

• For the reader will naturally understand something by every pronoun, unless it be a mere expletive, and without any antecedent.
• A writer in a journal of psychology points out the strong psychic link existing between a certain short expletive of condemnation and a refractory collar-button.
• Lewisham grasped the essentials of the situation forthwith, and trembled on the brink of an expletive.
• I was all but mute, uttering only an occasional expletive when forced to perform acts against my will.
• She had once used an expletive in his presence that had sickened him, and, noting its effect, she had not reiterated.
• At first glance I thought that the room was empty, then suddenly I heard another violent expletive and became aware of a man sitting close beside the iron stove.
• Without even an expletive he turned, pushed in the screen, clambered adroitly through the aperture, and disappeared almost instantly from sight.
• He blurted out his favorite expletive, lighted a new cigar, walked his room, and chafed like a caged tiger.
• It may be translated by an expletive or omitted entirely.

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