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Another word for indirect

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indirect

modif.

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.

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Another word for indirect

adjective

Not taking a direct or straight line or course:
anfractuous, circuitous, circular, devious, oblique, roundabout, tortuous. See straight
Marked by treachery or deceit:
devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, guileful, lubricious, shifty, sneaky, underhand, underhanded. See honest

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indirect. (n.d.). Retrieved December 09th, 2018, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Indirect

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The indirect effects of temperature are also important.
Some oaks are of indirect importance from products formed by their insect enemies.
The indirect results, however, were incalculably great.
She stood on a covered landing of a fortress made of black stones overlooking a parched desert beneath dual suns too faded to provide anything other than indirect light.
Fall the " indirect contributions " as now reclassified.

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