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.
Using or containing parentheses.
Added within parentheses to amplify or explain; as, parenthetical remarks.
an expression in parentheses; "his writing was full of parentheticals"
as if using parentheses; "a parenthetical style"
qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"
Adjective meaning "secondary". In grammar, it is used to describe an aside (or extra information) and can be placed between DASHes, commas or PARENTHESES.
A brief reference in parentheses at the end of a sentence referring the reader to a full citation in the bibliography of a research paper.
one or two words that qualify the tone of a dialogue line when it is not clear from the subtext or context of the line how it should be played; a parenthetical is placed in parentheses just above the dialogue line and indented.
Also known as a "wryly" because of the propensity of amateur screenwriters to try to accent a character's speech -- as in BOB (wryly) -- an inflection to a speech noted by a writer. Of course, in stageplays, all stage directions (at least in Manuscript Format) are in parentheses, but "directing off the page," as it's often called, is equally frowned upon.