How do you call a word that is so rudimentary that it can't be defined without being redundant? - eviltoast

I think axiom should fit, but according to its official definition, an axiom is a statement that is taken to be true, and as far as I know, a word can’t make an statement by its own.

  • Toast@lemmy.filmEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, it certainly did, and that is the way I use it. I have heard people use it in other ways

    • FredericChopin_@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      From the Oxford English Dictionary.

      Electrocute (verb)

      to injure or kill someone by passing electricity through their body