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brackety

brackety adjective: resembling or containing brackets (the typographical symbols).

Adjective

brackety (comparative more brackety, superlative most brackety)

  1. (informal) Resembling or containing brackets (the typographical symbols).
    • Each of these brackety things is a placeholder for an argument that you need to type in.2011, Alan Simpson, Margaret Levine Young, Alison Barrows, Microsoft Office Access 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
    • But the weird thing was, there was no working-out at all — just the sum, with that brackety thing with the line on top, and the answer written up above it, tidy as you like.2012, V M Jones, Beyond the Shroud

Forms of brackety

comparativemore brackety
superlativemost brackety

Origin of brackety

From bracket + -y.

Questions about brackety

What does brackety mean?
Brackety means resembling or containing brackets (the typographical symbols).
What part of speech is brackety?
Brackety is an adjective.

Words near brackety in the dictionary

  1. brackett
  2. Brackett series
  3. Bracketts
  4. Brackettville
  5. bracketwise
  6. brackety
  7. Brackin
  8. Brackins
  9. brackish
  10. brackish water
  11. brackish waters

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