parenthetical expression

1. 1.

   an expression in parentheses

   “his writing was full of parentheticals”

   Synonymsparenthetical

   Broaderadjunct

Questions about parenthetical expression

What does parenthetical expression mean?

parenthetical expression means "an expression in parentheses".

What is another word for parenthetical expression?

Close synonyms include parenthetical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parenthetical expression a common word?

parenthetical expression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.