parenthesis

The word “parenthesis” has 4 syllables: pa-ren-the-sis

It's pronounced as /pəˈrɛn.θə.sɪs/


What is synonym and antonym for parenthesis?

In the thesaurus, “parenthesis” has 55 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for parenthesis along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for parenthesis

  • adjournment
  • apostrophe
  • aside
  • bumper
  • caesura
  • comma
  • deflection
  • departure
  • detour
  • deviation
  • difference
  • discontinuance
  • discontinuity
  • discursion
  • divagation
  • divergence
  • divergency
  • diversion
  • drifting
  • episode
  • excursion
  • excursus
  • footnote
  • gap
  • hiatus
  • hiccough
  • hiccup
  • incident
  • interim
  • interlude
  • intermission
  • interregnum
  • interruption
  • interspace
  • interstice
  • interval
  • irrelevancy
  • lag
  • lapse
  • lull
  • note
  • obiter dictum
  • pause
  • rambling
  • recess
  • respite
  • rest
  • space
  • subinterval
  • suspension
  • tangent
  • time lag
  • variation
  • wandering
  • window

Antonyms for parenthesis

  • accord
  • agreement
  • conformity
  • continuation
  • continuity
  • continuum
  • procession
  • progression
  • run
  • sameness
  • similarity
  • stretch
  • uniformity

Meanings of parenthesis

  • noun
    1. A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
    2. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
    3. A digression; the use of such digressions.
    4. Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.

Example Sentences

  • He added a parenthesis to clarify his point.
  • A single parenthesis was left open in the equation.
  • The definition was enclosed in a parenthesis for extra detail.
  • She used a parenthesis to insert additional information.
  • The missing parenthesis caused an error in the program.

On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to parenthesis, such as: accord, adjournment, agreement, apostrophe, aside, bumper, caesura.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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caesura

  • adjournment
  • break
  • bumper
  • comma
  • discontinuance
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  • gap
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rambling

  • ambling
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  • at length
  • babble
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  • blab
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  • blithering
  • bombastic
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  • chatter
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  • chatting
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  • circuitous
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  • circularity
  • circumlocution
  • circumlocutory
  • communicative
  • confused
  • conversational
  • covering
  • cruising
  • dawdling
  • desultory
  • deviating
  • devious
  • diffuse
  • diffuseness
  • digressing
  • digression
  • digressional
  • digressionary
  • digressive
  • discursive
  • disjointed
  • divagation
  • drifting
  • drivel
  • driveling
  • drivelling
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  • embellished
  • embroidered
  • exaggerated
  • excursion
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  • floating
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  • grunt
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  • gypsying
  • here and there
  • hifalutin
  • highfalutin
  • hiking
  • hoboing
  • incoherent
  • incongruous
  • indirect
  • irregular
  • jabber
  • jabbering
  • kicking around
  • leaping
  • logorrheic
  • long-winded
  • loquacious
  • marching
  • maundering
  • meandering
  • mooching
  • moping
  • mumble
  • murmur
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  • mutter
  • muttering
  • parenthesis
  • pattering
  • perambulating
  • peregrinating
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  • power walking
  • prating
  • prattle
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  • prolix
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  • running on
  • sauntering
  • scattered
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  • spreading
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  • talkative
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  • tangent
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  • trailing
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  • undertone
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  • verbose
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  • waffling
  • walking
  • wandering
  • whisper
  • windiness
  • windy
  • wordiness
  • wordy

gap

  • abyss
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  • barranco
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  • break
  • bumper
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  • deficit
  • defile
  • dell
  • detriment
  • difference
  • disability
  • disagreement
  • discontinuance
  • discontinuity
  • disparity
  • divergence
  • divide
  • division
  • draw
  • failing
  • fault
  • fissure
  • floodplain
  • flume
  • fracture
  • gape
  • gill
  • glen
  • gorge
  • gulch
  • gulf
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  • gully
  • gutter
  • hiatus
  • hiccough
  • hiccup
  • hole
  • hollow
  • impairment
  • imperfection
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • incompleteness
  • inconsistency
  • insufficience
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  • interim
  • interlude
  • intermission
  • interregnum
  • interruption
  • interspace
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  • kettle
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  • lack
  • lacuna
  • lag
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  • linn
  • lull
  • need
  • notch
  • nullah
  • opening
  • orifice
  • parenthesis
  • pass
  • pause
  • pore
  • ravine
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  • respite
  • rest
  • rift
  • rupture
  • saddle
  • separation
  • severance
  • shortcoming
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  • shut-in
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  • space
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  • sundering
  • suspension
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  • trench
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  • vacuity
  • vale
  • valley
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  • wadi
  • want
  • wash
  • weakness
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