expletive
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
expletives were deleted
Types & categories
- profanity hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
Types & categories
- utterance hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | curse |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | curse |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | profanity |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | utterance |