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| Main Entry: |
parenthetical
 [par-uhn-thet-ik] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
| Synonyms: | bracketed, by the way, episodic, explanatory, extraneous, extrinsic, in parenthesis, incidental, inserted, intermediate, interposed, qualifying, related, subordinate |
| Antonyms: | basic, consequential, important |
| Main Entry: | parenthetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | digressive |
| Synonyms: | departing, detouring, differing, discursive, excursive, parenthetical, rambling, tangential |
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Example Sentences
- In conversation, they often detour into parenthetical tangents, never returning to the main point.
- In both cases, the effort to add information in a parenthetical way went off track.
- It depends on whether you have a parenthetical citation after the quotation.
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