About The Word Parenthetic
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Parenthetic
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What's The Definition Of Parenthetic?
[adj] qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"
[adj] as if using parentheses; "a parenthetical style" Synonyms | Synonyms for Parenthetic: incident | incidental | parenthetical | parenthetical Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Parenthetic In Webster's Dictionary \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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