Indirect

What do we mean by indirect?

Diverging from a direct course; roundabout. adjective

Not proceeding straight to the point or object. adjective

Not forthright and candid; devious. adjective

Not directly planned for; secondary. adjective

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. adjective

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

Being an indirect free kick. adjective

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and supplied by Great Britain. adjective

A mode of demonstration in which proof is given by showing that any other supposition involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to another by showing that it can be neither greater nor less. adjective

An indirect cost.

A shady message to someone delivered not to their face but by indirect means. A sub. Common on Twitter. Urban Dictionary

Not directly. If broken down into its parts: in (not) direct (plain) Urban Dictionary

Posting about a specific event with a specific person without disclosing who or what; sub-tweeting Urban Dictionary

To say something to someone without including their name (although it is obvious) Urban Dictionary

An indecipherable coded language used to confuse and distract you from whatever is going on. Urban Dictionary

Is the vague, unclear and often indecipherable coded language used to confuse or distract someone rather than being up front and direct. Urban Dictionary

Is the vague and often indecipherable coded language some men think women use. Urban Dictionary

When your mouth touches something that someone else's mouth has touched recently. Urban Dictionary

A cute kiss used often in anime when someone puts their mouth on something someone else put their mouth on. Urban Dictionary

When you high five or shake someone's hand then jerk off Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to indirect:
indirect, undirect, direct, indigent, indict, redirect, misdirect, indigest, codirect, indirecto.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word indirect:
taxation, injection, infringement, direct, verb, object, taxes, verbs, aggression, addressing, pathway, impacts, indirectly, discourse, costs, discrimination, lighting, emissions, tax, effects, benefits, expenses, jobs, kick, rule, fire, measurements, consequences, utility, measurement, accident, speech, methods, fitness, method, objects, subsidiary, damage, effect, fires, evidence, consumption, presidential, employment, references, sequel, artillery, instruction, contact, storm, directly, questions, address, measure.

Words that rhyme with indirect:
effect, affect, respect, project, subject, aspect, object, perfect, reflect, direct, connect, circumspect, defect, expect, correct, neglect, suspect, collect, select, protect, dialect, reject, detect, deflect, architect, retrospect, dissect, insect, sect, intellect, erect, elect, inspect, disrespect, eject, intersect, prefect, resurrect, interject, disconnect, inject, infect, transect, side effect, incorrect, recollect, spect, introspect, deject, interconnect, redirect, checked, aftereffect, confect, flecked, wrecked, disaffect, decked, reelect, necked, speckt, disinfect, in effect, bedecked, henpecked, reconnect, misdirect, brecht, welked, hecht, unchecked, doppler effect, trekked, specked, overprotect, greenhouse effect, reinspect, recht, albrecht, pecked, specht, take effect, future perfect, knecht, in that respect, present perfect, schlecht, sound effect, scale insect, past perfect, whelked, stick insect, cantonese dialect, coattails effect, liege subject, willful neglect, rechecked, wecht, child neglect, landscape architect.

Adjectives that are often used to describe indirect:
direct, total, free, net, cash, 477-8.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective indirect:
taxes, evidence, effects, method, costs, effect, methods, way, object, influence, rule, taxation, means, approach, discourse, control, ways, benefits, speech, support, manner, test, measures, measure, tax, result, action, lighting, labor, immunofluorescence, measurement, election, cost, questions, discrimination, reference, contact, proof, objects, impact, communication, calorimetry, expenses, technique, consequences, question, route, cause, aggression, techniques, role, function, light, measurements, influences, tests, relationship, mode, consequence, hernia, elections, expression, materials, quotation, benefit, ophthalmoscopy, violence, approaches, attack, connection, suggestion, fashion, fire, acts, mechanism, style, references, impacts, relation, heating, representation, access, trade, bilirubin, subsidies, pathway, aid.

Consonant match to indirect:
underact, under act.

Words that sound like indirect:
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