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expletive. n. 1. (Linguistics) an exclamation or swearword; an oath or a sound expressing an emotional reaction rather than any particular meaning. 2. (Linguistics) any syllable, word, or phrase conveying no independent meaning, esp one inserted in a line of verse for the sake of the metre. adj.
filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. Expletive (noun). a word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. Origin: [L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p. of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. expltif.