Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

expletively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ex-ple-tive-ly
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an expletive way.

Etymology

From expletive + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more expletively (comparative) most expletively (superlative)

Questions

What does expletively mean?
In an expletive way.
Where does expletively come from?
From expletive + -ly.

How to pronounce expletively

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