Synonyms for indirect
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roundabout, circuitous, out-of-the-way, tortuous, twisting, long, complicated, devious, aberrant, erratic, sidelong, zigzag, crooked, backhanded, obscure, discursive, rambling, long-winded, secondary, incidental, subsidiary, auxiliary, implied, oblique.
Antonyms direct*, straight, immediate.
See indirect in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Not taking a direct or straight line or course:
anfractuous, circuitous, circular, devious, oblique, roundabout, tortuous. See straightMarked by treachery or deceit:
devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, guileful, lubricious, shifty, sneaky, underhand, underhanded. See honest
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