'aside' definitions:
Definition of 'aside'
(from WordNet)
adverb
On or to one side; "step aside"; "stood aside to let him pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when he entered"
adverb
Out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" [syn: aside, away]
adverb
Not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: apart, aside]
adverb
In a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away" [syn: away, aside]
adverb
Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing" [syn: aside, apart]
adverb
In reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: aside, by, away]
noun
A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
noun
A message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis]
Synonyms of 'aside'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a huis clos,
- all,
- apart,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- asquint,
- away,
- awry,
- back,
- behind closed doors,
- beside,
- between the teeth,
- broadside,
- broadside on,
- by,
- crabwise,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- each,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- episode,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- glancingly,
- in a whisper,
- in an aside,
- in camera,
- in chambers,
- in executive session,
- in juxtaposition,
- in privacy,
- in private,
- in private conference,
- in privy,
- in reserve,
- infix,
- injection,
- insert,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- intercalation,
- interjection,
- interlineation,
- interlocution,
- interpolation,
- introduction,
- januis clausis,
- laterad,
- laterally,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- monology,
- nearby,
- nigh,
- obiter dictum,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- on the side,
- out of earshot,
- parenthesis,
- per,
- per capita,
- privately,
- privily,
- remark,
- right and left,
- round,
- side remark,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- slant,
- slantingly,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- slaunchways,
- slopeways,
- soliloquy,
- solo,
- sotto voce,
- to one side,
- to the side,
- tossing-in,
- wide apart,
- wide away,
- with bated breath