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Expletive may refer to:
- Expletive (linguistics), a word or phrase that is not needed to express the basic meaning of the sentence
- Expletive pronoun, a pronoun used as subject or other verb argument that is meaningless but syntactically required
- Expletive attributive, a word that contributes nothing to meaning but suggests the strength of feeling of the speaker
- Profanity or swear word, a word or expression that is strongly impolite or offensive
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See also
- Expletive infixation, morphological process of inserting expletive attributive or profanity into a word
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