Parenthetical

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]:

  parenthetical
       adj 1: as if using parentheses; "a parenthetical style" [syn: {parenthetic}]
       2: qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in
          parentheses; "parenthetical remarks" [syn: {parenthetic}]
       n : an expression in parentheses; "his writing was full of
           parentheticals" [syn: {parenthetical expression}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "parenthetical":
     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