parenthetical

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}]
    

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]
    

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