parenthetic
- s qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses
parenthetical remarks
- Worry, he once said, is a feminine trait; then he added, with one of those unexpected smiles which deepen the parenthetic lines about his mouth and the crow's-feet beside his .
- The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English.