parenthetical
adjective
of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis.
parenthetic
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a variation of
parenthetical.
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a word derived from
parenthesis.
parenthesisnouneither or both of a pair of signs ( ) used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
Example Sentences
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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Hardly to be called his inheritance, I think," said Percival, in a parenthetic way, "if he was the child of one Vincenza Vasari, and not of the Luttrells."
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
The little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath, and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
Bounce paused, in the midst of his mental energy, to take a parenthetic whiff.
From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Archibald Webb
