Meaning of PARENTHETIC
| Pronunciation: | | `parun'thetik
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- [adj] qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"
- [adj] as if using parentheses; "a parenthetical style"
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| | Synonyms: | | incident, incidental, parenthetical, parenthetical |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par`en*thet"ic\, Parenthetical \Par`en*thet"ic*al\,
a. [Cf. Gr. ?.]
1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or
expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical
clause; a parenthetic remark.
A parenthetical observation of Moses himself.
--Hales.
2. Using or containing parentheses.
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| | Related Terms: | | accidental, adrift, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, broken, broken off, by-the-way, casual, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, fitful, herky-jerky, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, incoherent, inconsequent, intercalary, interjectional, intermittent, interpolative, interrupted, irregular, irrelative, irrelevant, jagged, jerky, nihil ad rem, noncontinuous, nonessential, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, not at issue, occasional, off the subject, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, patchy, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, suspended, unconnected, unessential, unjoined, unsuccessive |
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