Usually means: Word expressing emotion, not meaning.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word expletive:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. expletive: Merriam-Webster
  2. expletive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expletive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expletive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expletive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expletive, expletive: Wordnik
  7. expletive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expletive: Wiktionary
  9. expletive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expletive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expletive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expletive: Dictionary.com
  13. expletive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. expletive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Expletive (disambiguation), Expletive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Expletive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. expletive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. expletive: Rhymezone
  19. Expletive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. expletive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. expletive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. expletive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. expletive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. expletive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Expletive: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  2. Expletive: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expletive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expletive: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Expletive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
adjective:  Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
noun:  A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
noun:  (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
noun:  (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
noun:  An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).

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