3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: parenthetic \par`en*thet"ic\ (p[a^]r`[e^]n*th[e^]t"[i^]k), parenthetical \par`en*thet"ic*al\ (p[a^]r`[e^]n*th[e^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [Cf. Gr. pare`nqetos.] 1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as if in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark; a parenthetical style. [WordNet sense 1] [1913 Webster] A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. --Hales. [1913 Webster] 2. Using or containing parentheses. [1913 Webster] 3. Added within parentheses to amplify or explain; as, parenthetical remarks. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: parenthetic adj 1: as if using parentheses; "a parenthetical style" [syn: {parenthetical}] 2: qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks" [syn: {parenthetical}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 63 Moby Thesaurus words for "parenthetic": 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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