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expletive 音标拼音: ['ɛksplətɪv] a. 填补的;多余的 填补的;多余的 expletive n 1: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; " expletives were deleted" [ synonym: { curse}, { curse word}, { expletive}, { oath}, { swearing}, { swearword}, { cuss}] 2: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical lineExpletive \ Ex" ple* tive\, n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. [ 1913 Webster] While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster]
Expletive \ Ex" ple* tive\, a. [ L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p. of explere to fill up; ex outplere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. expl[' e] tif. See { Full}.] Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. " Expletive imagery." -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] Expletive phrases to plump his speech. -- Barrow. [ 1913 Webster] 81 Moby Thesaurus words for " expletive": 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
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