Parentheticaladjective
using, containing, or within parenthesis
‘the parenthetical portion of the sentence "Bob (my best friend) works in finance"’;
Parenthesisnoun
A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
Parentheticaladjective
that explains or qualifies something
Parenthesisnoun
Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
Parentheticaladjective
that is incidental
Parenthesisnoun
(rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
Parentheticalnoun
A word or phrase within parentheses.
Parenthesisnoun
Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
Parentheticalnoun
(screenwriting) A descriptor or modifier enclosed within parentheses and put, indented, in a line of dialogue to describe how it should be acted or directed onscreen.
Parenthesisnoun
A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.
‘Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis.’;
Parentheticalnoun
an expression in parentheses;
‘his writing was full of parentheticals’;
Parenthesisnoun
One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
Parentheticaladjective
as if using parentheses;
‘a parenthetical style’;
Parenthesisnoun
either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
Parentheticaladjective
qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses;
‘parenthetical remarks’;
Parenthesisnoun
a message that departs from the main subject
Parenthesisnoun
a word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage which is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by brackets, dashes, or commas
‘in a challenging parenthesis, Wordsworth comments on the evil effects of contemporary developments’;
Parenthesisnoun
a pair of round brackets ( ) used to mark off a parenthetical word or phrase
‘the stage number is added in parentheses to the name or formula’;
Parenthesisnoun
an interlude or interval
‘the three months of coalition government were a lamentable political parenthesis’;
