Sekirov Dictionary

indirect

UK /ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/US /ˌɪn.dɪˈɹɛkt/

adjective 7
noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

adjective7

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Not direct
- While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.
- Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single.
Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
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Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.
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Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination.
Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
Figuratively
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(no longer used) Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.
- Did you, by indirect, and forced courses / Subdue, and poyson this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by request, and such faire question / As soule, to soule affordeth? — 1603

noun2

An indirect cost.
An indirect radiator.

verb1

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To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
- The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer. — 1997

forms

indirected · indirecting · indirects · more indirect · most indirect

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