parenthetic
- adjective
- /pərˈɛnθɪtɪk/
:
parentético
- In her speech, she included a few parenthetic comments to provide extra context.
Examples
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Michel's parenthetic interjection as he tries to write "flight now (what a word, now, what a dumb lie)" (103) is one of many such metacommentaries that point up the problematic time-space coordinates of narration.
Academic text (1993) -
(A parenthetic disclaimer is in order here: Steiner is not an idealist, either in the technical sense of one for whom only spirit is real or in the popular sense of an impractical dreamer who commits to unattainable goals.
Academic text (1991) -
You should have had your parenthetic sentence and the sentence before it reversed, which would have made it similar to the fine way Mr. Powers had written it above; anyway, I don't get why The Boston Globe, The Times's sister paper, has seen fit to get it in tune.
Blog text (16) -
Shelley's line 6 comprises an almost parenthetic relative clause ("Which from our death, as from a mountain") followed by the verb "flings," whose main subject ("shade") ended line 5 in the considerable suspense of strong enjambment.
Academic text (2003) -
The teacher added a parenthetic remark to clarify the lesson for her students.
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The novel is filled with parenthetic phrases that enhance the main narrative.
Synonyms
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7.1
A remark that gives short extra information inside parentheses
Antonyms
How Essential
Surface Forms
Morphology
parenthetic = parenthesis (transparent) = parenthesis + ic
Meaning is directly derived from 'parenthesis' + the adjectival suffix '-ic', indicating 'relating to or enclosed in parentheses', which a learner who knows 'parenthesis' can infer.
Etymology
Parenthetic comes from the word parenthesis, built from the Greek part para- meaning 'beside' and a root meaning 'to put'. Think of a parenthetic remark as a small note put beside the main sentence, like an aside, so it gives extra information but is not essential to the main point.