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Meaning of PARENTHETICAL

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an expression in parentheses; "his writing was full of parentheticals"
  2. [adj]  qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"
  3. [adj]  as if using parentheses; "a parenthetical style"
 
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 Synonyms: incident, incidental, parenthetic, parenthetic, parenthetical expression
 
 See Also: adjunct

 

 

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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, parenthetic, patchy, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, suspended, unconnected, unessential, unjoined, unsuccessive
 

 

 

 

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