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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an expression in parentheses;
- Example: "his writing was full of parentheticals"
[syn: parenthetical expression, parenthetical]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses;
- Example: "parenthetical remarks"
[syn: parenthetic, parenthetical]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

parenthetical adj 1: qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks" [syn: parenthetic, parenthetical] n 1: an expression in parentheses; "his writing was full of parentheticals" [syn: parenthetical expression, parenthetical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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