parenthetic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: par=en=thet=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

parenthetic, a. [Cf. Gr. pare`nqetos.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "A parenthetical observation of Moses himself."  [1913 Webster]
•  Using or containing parentheses.  [1913 Webster]
•  Added within parentheses to amplify or explain; as, parenthetical remarks.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parenthetic, adj.
1 of or by way of a parenthesis.
2 interposed.

Derivative

parenthetical adj. parenthetically adv.

Etymology

PARENTHESIS after synthesis, synthetic, etc.

THESAURUS

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