Synonyms of the word expletive


EXPLETIVECURSE - CUSS - OATH - PROFANITY - SWEARING - SWEARWORD - UTTERANCE - VOCALIZATION

expletive

  • adj. Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
  • adj. Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
  • n. A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
  • n. (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
  • n. (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning; an intensifier.

curse

  • n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
  • n. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
  • n. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
  • n. A vulgar epithet.
  • n. (slang) A woman's menses.
  • v. (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
  • v. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
  • v. (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
  • v. (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
  • v. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which…

cuss

  • v. (chiefly US) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
  • n. (chiefly US) A curse.
  • n. (chiefly US) A curse word.
  • n. (dated, chiefly US) A fellow, person.

oath

  • n. A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or…
  • n. The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath.
  • n. A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to…
  • n. A curse.
  • n. (law) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
  • v. (archaic) to pledge.

profanity

  • n. (uncountable) The quality of being profane.
  • n. (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

swearing

  • v. present participle of swear.
  • n. The act of swearing, or making an oath.

swearword

  • n. Alternative spelling of swear word.

utterance

  • n. An act of uttering.
  • n. Something spoken.
  • n. The ability to speak.
  • n. Manner of speaking.
  • n. (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
  • n. (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
  • n. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

vocalization

  • n. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
  • n. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
  • n. The use of speech to express an idea.
  • n. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
  • n. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are…
  • n. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds…

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