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adj. Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.

adj. Not proceeding straight to the point or object.

adj. Not forthright and candid; devious.

adj. Not directly planned for; secondary: indirect benefits.

adj. Reporting the exact or approximate words of another with such changes as are necessary to bring the original statement into grammatical conformity with the sentence in which it is included: indirect discourse.

adj. Logic Involving, relating to, or being the proof of a statement by the demonstration of the impossibility or absurdity of the statement's negation.

adj. Sports Being a free kick in soccer by which a goal cannot be scored without the ball being touched by a second player.

adj. Not direct; roundabout; deceiving; setting a trap; confusing.

adj. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous.

adj. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means.

adj. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive.

adj. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it.

adj. Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method

Not direct in space; deviating from a straight line; devious; circuitous: as, an indirect course in sailing.

Not direct in succession or descent; not lineal; of irregular derivation; out of direct line from the prime source or origin: as, indirect descent or inheritance; an indirect claim; indirect information.

Not direct in relation or connection; not having an immediate bearing or application; not related in the natural way; oblique; incidental; inferential: as, an indirect answer; an indirect effect; indirect taxes.

Not direct in action or procedure; not in the usual course; not straightforward; not fair and open; equivocal: as, indirect means of accomplishing an object.

Unfair, dishonest, dishonorable.

adj. extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action

adj. not as a direct effect or consequence

adj. having intervening factors or persons or influences

adj. not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination

adj. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

"They were crammed with what we term indirect workers—workers on their way to relieve a fellow employee, machine repairers en route to troubleshoot a problem, housekeepers, inventory runners."

backhanded    roundabout    allusive    devious    circumlocutious    discursive    mealy-mouthed    ambagious    tortuous    hearsay   

direct   

indirect demonstration    indirect testimony    indirect proof    indirect object    indirect evidence    indirect predication    indirect syllogism    indirect tax    indirect discourse    indirect equilibration   

indirection   

indirect object    indirect speech   

circuitous    unfair    dishonest    devious    tortuous    oblique    sidelong    squint    secondary    mediate   

Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct   

direct    definite    adequate    mutual    secondary    legitimate    explicit    visual