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Indirect synonyms
ĭn'dĭ-rĕkt', -dī-
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rambling
Lengthy and digressive:
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  1. Lengthy and digressive:
  2. Extended over an irregular area; sprawling:
  3. Often or habitually roaming; wandering.
roundabout
Indirect; circuitous:
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  1. Indirect; circuitous:
  2. Not straight or straightforward; indirect; circuitous
  3. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or vagueness:
circuitous
Roundabout; indirect; devious
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  1. Roundabout; indirect; devious
  2. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course:
  3. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or complexity, as in action or language:
out-of-the-way
Remote or secluded.
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  1. Remote or secluded.
  2. Being out of the ordinary; unusual:
  3. (Idiomatic) Taken care of.
tortuous
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting:
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  1. Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting:
  2. Highly involved; complex:
  3. Full of twists, turns, curves, or windings; winding; crooked
twisting
Having many twists
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  1. Having many twists
long
Having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several:
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  1. Having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several:
  2. (Prosody) Requiring a relatively long time to pronounce
  3. Tediously protracted; lengthy:
complicated
Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
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  1. Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
  2. Not easy to understand or analyze because of being intricate:
  3. Made up of parts intricately involved; hard to untangle, solve, understand, analyze, etc.
devious
Deviating from the proper or usual course; going astray
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  1. Deviating from the proper or usual course; going astray
  2. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
  3. Away from a main road or course; distant or removed.
aberrant
Deviating from what is typical for a specified thing:
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  1. Deviating from what is typical for a specified thing:
  2. Turning away from what is right, true, etc.
  3. Deviating from what is considered proper or normal:
erratic
Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity:
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  1. Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity:
  2. (Geol.) Designating a boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier
  3. Having no fixed course or purpose; irregular; random; wandering
sidelong
Indirect; subtle or devious
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  1. Indirect; subtle or devious
  2. Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
  3. Directed to one side; sideways:
zigzag
Moving in or having a zigzag.
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  1. Moving in or having a zigzag.
  2. Having the form of a zigzag
crooked
Having a crook or hook
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  1. Having a crook or hook
  2. Not straight; bent; curved; askew
  3. At an irregular or improper angle; askew:
backhanded
(Sports) Performed by backhanding the ball
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  1. (Sports) Performed by backhanding the ball
  2. (Sports) Made with or using a backhand:
  3. Designating an insincere or ambiguous compliment, esp. one that is indirectly unflattering or derogatory
obscure
Lacking light; dim; dark; murky
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  1. Lacking light; dim; dark; murky
  2. Not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague:
  3. So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct:
discursive
Based on the conscious use of reasoning rather than on intuition
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  1. Based on the conscious use of reasoning rather than on intuition
  2. (Philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
  3. Wandering from one topic to another; skimming over many apparently unconnected subjects; rambling; desultory; digressive
long-winded
Capable of considerable exertion without getting out of breath
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  1. Capable of considerable exertion without getting out of breath
  2. Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.
  3. Tiresomely long
secondary
Designating a form or a process that is historically relatively late; not original
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  1. Designating a form or a process that is historically relatively late; not original
  2. Following what is first in time or sequence:
  3. (Ornithology) Designating or of the long flight feathers attached to the second joint or segment of a bird's wing
incidental
Loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident.
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  1. Loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident.
  2. Happening as a result of or in connection with something more important; casual
  3. Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
subsidiary
Giving aid, support, service, etc.; serving to supplement; auxiliary
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  1. Giving aid, support, service, etc.; serving to supplement; auxiliary
  2. Serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary.
  3. Being in a secondary or subordinate relationship
auxiliary
Acting in a subsidiary, or subordinate, capacity
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  1. Acting in a subsidiary, or subordinate, capacity
  2. (Nautical) Equipped with a motor as well as sails.
  3. Held in or used as a reserve:
implied
Of something that is inferred, rather than plainly expressed. Of something that is inferred, rather than plainly expressed.
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  1. Of something that is inferred, rather than plainly expressed. Of something that is inferred, rather than plainly expressed.
  2. Involved, suggested, or understood without being openly or directly expressed
oblique
(Grammar) Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.
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  1. (Grammar) Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.
  2. (Botany) Having the part on one side of the midrib of a different size or shape than the part on the other side. Used of a leaf.
  3. Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
anfractuous
Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
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  1. Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
circuitous
Roundabout; indirect; devious
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  1. Roundabout; indirect; devious
  2. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course:
  3. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or complexity, as in action or language:
circular
Moving in or forming a circle.
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  1. Moving in or forming a circle.
  2. Using a premise to prove a conclusion that in turn is used to prove the premise:
  3. In the shape of a circle; round
devious
Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
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  1. Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
  2. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
  3. Away from a main road or course; distant or removed.
oblique
(Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal:
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  1. (Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal:
  2. (Bot.) Having the sides unequal, as some leaves
  3. (Geom.) With its axis not perpendicular to its base
roundabout
Encircling; enclosing; surrounding
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  1. Encircling; enclosing; surrounding
  2. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or vagueness:
  3. Not straight or straightforward; indirect; circuitous
tortuous
Highly involved; complex:
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  1. Highly involved; complex:
  2. Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting:
  3. Not straightforward; circuitous; devious:
devious
Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
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  1. Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
  2. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
  3. Deviating from the proper or usual course; going astray
disingenuous
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
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  1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
  2. Slyly deceptive or misleading, typically by means of a pretense of ignorance or unawareness
  3. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating:
duplicitous
Having duplicity; deceitful
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  1. Having duplicity; deceitful
  2. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
guileful
Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
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  1. Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
lubricious
Having a slippery or smooth quality:
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  1. Having a slippery or smooth quality:
  2. Sexually stimulating; salacious:
  3. Full of or displaying sexual desire:
shifty
Able to accomplish what is needed; resourceful.
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  1. Able to accomplish what is needed; resourceful.
  2. Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
  3. (Informal) Having or showing a tricky or deceitful nature; evasive
sneaky
Dishonest; deceitful
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  1. Dishonest; deceitful
  2. Of or like a sneak; underhanded
  3. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
underhand
(By extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
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  1. (By extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
  2. Underhanded
  3. Dishonest and sneaky; underhanded.
underhanded
Acting or done in a deceptive, secret, or sly manner; dishonest and sneaky.
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  1. Acting or done in a deceptive, secret, or sly manner; dishonest and sneaky.
  2. Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
  3. Underhand:
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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.

  • The indirect mode of budding (figs.

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