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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.
By Richard Nordquist. Definition: (1) In grammar, a construction that begins with the word here, there, or it and is followed by a form of the verb to be. Sometimes called a syntactic expletive. Also see: 1  Cleft. 2  Delayed Subject. 3  Dummy It. 4  Dummy Word. 5  Existential Sentence. 6  Existential There.