
Meaning of PARENTHETICAL
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- [n] an expression in parentheses; "his writing was full of parentheticals"
- [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, parenthetic, parenthetic, parenthetical expression |
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| | 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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