PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An expression in parentheses

Example:

his writing was full of parentheticals

Synonyms:

parenthetical; parenthetical expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("parenthetical expression" is a kind of...):

adjunct (a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence)

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