Wordfilter
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.
"Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends."
Example
More examples"Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends."
Etymology
From word + filter.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.