Expletive attributive
Part of speech, adverbial or adjectival intensifier / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Expletive (disambiguation).
An expletive attributive is an adjective or adverb (or adjectival or adverbial phrase) that does not contribute to the meaning of a sentence, but is used to intensify its emotional force. Often such words or phrases are regarded as profanity or "bad language", though there are also inoffensive expletive attributives. The word is derived from the Latin verb explere, meaning "to fill", and it was originally introduced into English in the 17th century for various kinds of padding.
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