Definition for Indirect:

• Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc.

Synonyms for Indirect:

• adj.

  •circumstantial (adjective)
  • incidental,
  • uncertain,
  • eventual,
  • occasional,
  • circumstantial,
  • inconclusive,
  • episodic,
  • provisional,
  • inferential,
  • landmark,
  • presumptive.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • shady,
  • meandering,
  • warped.
  •derivative (adjective)
  • secondary.
  •diagonal (adjective)
  • crosswise,
  • bent,
  • aslant,
  • devious,
  • inclined,
  • diagonal,
  • biased,
  • Deviated,
  • angled,
  • leaning,
  • sloping,
  • slanting.
  •discursive (adjective)
  • excursive.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  •evasive (adjective)
  • casuistic,
  • sophistical.
  •in essence (adjective)
  • virtual.
  •oblique (adjective)
  • zigzag.
  •roundabout; unintended (adjective)
  • implied,
  • secondary,
  • winding,
  • crooked,
  • Snaking,
  • collateral,
  • duplicitous,
  • sneaky,
  • periphrastic,
  • sinuous,
  • circuitous,
  • rambling,
  • sidelong,
  • complicated,
  • underhand,
  • oblique,
  • eventual,
  • zigzag,
  • circular,
  • twisting,
  • long-drawn-out,
  • incidental,
  • serpentine,
  • sinister,
  • tortuous,
  • ambiguous,
  • long-winded,
  • erratic,
  • devious,
  • ancillary,
  • subsidiary,
  • contingent,
  • long way home,
  • vagrant,
  • meandering,
  • circumlocutory,
  • sneaking,
  • discursive,
  • long,
  • obscure,
  • wandering,
  • out-of-the-way.
  •side (adjective)
  • sidelong,
  • sideward.
  •sinuous (adjective)
  • flexuous,
  • deviative.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • implicit,
  • Insinuated,
  • subtle,
  • delicate,
  • implied,
  • elusive.
  •underhand (adjective)
  • lubricious.
  •vicarious (adjective)
  • Deputed.

• n.

  •
  • ensuing,
  • thus,
  • consequently,
  • hence,
  • therefore,
  • From,
  • accordingly.
  •
  • astringent,
  • acrid,
  • cheap,
  • circular,
  • acid,
  • bland,
  • anfractuous,
  • cutting,
  • biting,
  • CODED.
  •
  • twisty,
  • duplicitous,
  • underhanded,
  • guileful,
  • underhand,
  • shifty,
  • disingenuous,
  • lubricious,
  • sneaky.
  •indirect (noun)
  • devious,
  • diversionary,
  • circuitous,
  • circumlocutory,
  • ambagious,
  • allusive,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • roundabout,
  • askant,
  • squint,
  • askance,
  • periphrastic,
  • hearsay,
  • mealymouthed,
  • excursive,
  • circumlocutious,
  • winding,
  • mediate,
  • wandering,
  • rambling,
  • backhanded,
  • asquint,
  • sidelong,
  • squint-eyed,
  • meandering,
  • discursive,
  • tortuous,
  • secondary,
  • collateral,
  • digressive,
  • squinty,
  • oblique.
  •roundabout (noun)
  • erratic,
  • complicated,
  • auxiliary,
  • long,
  • obscure,
  • long-winded,
  • crooked,
  • zigzag,
  • aberrant,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • twisting,
  • subsidiary.

• v.

  •following (verb)
  • consequent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • twisty,
  • underhand,
  • distant,
  • duplicitous,
  • side.
  •
  • shifty,
  • underhanded,
  • anfractuous,
  • guileful,
  • lubricious.
  •
  • disingenuous,
  • remote.
  •
  • sneaky.
  •circuitous
  • circuitous,
  • circular.
  •polite
  • euphemistic.
  •twisted
  • sinuous.
  •twisting
  • snaky.
  •Other relevant words:
  • immoral,
  • unessential,
  • shameless,
  • hesitant,
  • snakelike,
  • scheming,
  • circulate,
  • meditate,
  • ambiguous,
  • subsidiary,
  • consequent,
  • copied,
  • derivative,
  • tricky,
  • vermicular,
  • revolve,
  • consequently,
  • evidentiary,
  • gyrate,
  • concealed,
  • criminal,
  • bear,
  • collusive,
  • circular,
  • vicarious,
  • lesser,
  • obliquely,
  • forward,
  • crossways,
  • communicate,
  • Equivocating,
  • sideways,
  • fishy,
  • unsavory,
  • immigrate,
  • insincere,
  • questionable,
  • transfer,
  • intricate,
  • inconsequential,
  • disingenuous,
  • departing,
  • corroboratory,
  • express,
  • tangential,
  • transmit,
  • across,
  • errant,
  • Chiseling,
  • dubious,
  • discursive,
  • Substituted,
  • twisted,
  • sophistical,
  • conscienceless,
  • edgewise,
  • cunning,
  • hypocritical,
  • therefore,
  • oily,
  • lopsidedly,
  • falsely,
  • long way home,
  • diversionary,
  • underhanded,
  • suspicious,
  • From,
  • deviative,
  • Inferred,
  • awry,
  • mistakenly,
  • substantiating,
  • last,
  • round,
  • second hand,
  • lubricious,
  • Inferable,
  • unimportant,
  • Circumlocutional,
  • inconsiderable,
  • insignificant,
  • substantiative,
  • tortuous,
  • amiss,
  • long-drawn-out,
  • byway,
  • backhanded,
  • evidential,
  • casuistic,
  • equivocal,
  • twisting,
  • left-handed,
  • cheap,
  • mediate,
  • extraneous,
  • divergent,
  • side,
  • mazy,
  • squinty,
  • wiggly,
  • contingent,
  • erratic,
  • fraudulent,
  • erroneously,
  • ambagious,
  • bland,
  • chance,
  • suspiciously,
  • sneaky,
  • bending,
  • indirectly,
  • Deviatory,
  • acid,
  • fetch,
  • Circumambient,
  • ancillary,
  • shady,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • skew,
  • diagonally,
  • Covinous,
  • athwart,
  • guileful,
  • convoluted,
  • unconscientious,
  • veering,
  • slick,
  • marginal,
  • innuendo,
  • shifting,
  • secondary,
  • askance,
  • acrid,
  • tacit,
  • complex,
  • meandering,
  • unprincipled,
  • improperly,
  • incorrectly,
  • confirmatory,
  • askew,
  • surrogate,
  • dishonourable,
  • involved,
  • euphemistic,
  • calculating,
  • minor,
  • artful,
  • take,
  • sinistral,
  • digressive,
  • additional,
  • rotary,
  • swerving,
  • interpretive,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • knock-on,
  • presumable,
  • validating,
  • loose,
  • surreptitious,
  • shifty,
  • finagling,
  • winding,
  • asquint,
  • backhand,
  • flexuous,
  • verifying,
  • biting,
  • sharp,
  • confirmative,
  • CODED,
  • adscititious,
  • crooked,
  • unspoken,
  • vagrant,
  • sneaking,
  • anfractuous,
  • orbital,
  • misleading,
  • Deviating,
  • wily,
  • obscure,
  • remote,
  • Glancing,
  • move,
  • squiggly,
  • aberrant,
  • Imitated,
  • hearsay,
  • oblique,
  • dark,
  • serpentine,
  • corkscrew,
  • shift,
  • implicative,
  • falsehearted,
  • dissembling,
  • clandestine,
  • final,
  • ultimate,
  • Delegated,
  • indirection,
  • consider,
  • undeclared,
  • deviant,
  • long,
  • by implication,
  • thus,
  • sidelong,
  • deceptive,
  • turn,
  • hence,
  • ensuing,
  • long-winded,
  • understood,
  • fortuitous,
  • warped,
  • undirected,
  • accidental,
  • commissioned,
  • snaky,
  • two-faced,
  • euphemism,
  • mincing,
  • adventitious,
  • byzantine,
  • inherent,
  • astringent,
  • mealymouthed,
  • evasive,
  • accordingly,
  • constructive,
  • irregular,
  • doubtful,
  • ponder,
  • sly,
  • insidious,
  • Snaking,
  • unctuous,
  • aberrative,
  • verificatory,
  • virtual,
  • underground,
  • covert,
  • offhand,
  • reluctant,
  • subordinate,
  • treacherous,
  • roving,
  • confirming,
  • Meandrous,
  • wrongly,
  • transport,
  • carry,
  • provisional,
  • validatory,
  • wandering,
  • curvy,
  • ill-gotten,
  • zigzag,
  • aside,
  • distant,
  • latent,
  • pass on,
  • crab-like,
  • unoriginal,
  • roundabout,
  • byroad,
  • convey,
  • squint-eyed,
  • desultory,
  • unethical,
  • complicated,
  • muffled,
  • badly,
  • rotten,
  • unscrupulous,
  • deceitful,
  • periphrasis,
  • underhand,
  • emigrate,
  • vermiculate,
  • faultily,
  • circumlocutious,
  • squint,
  • furtive,
  • unconscionable,
  • amoral,
  • Deputed,
  • accessory,
  • vague,
  • sideward,
  • Trickish,
  • cagey,
  • secondhand,
  • related,
  • rambling,
  • auxiliary,
  • dishonorable,
  • assigned,
  • excursive,
  • crookedly,
  • duplicitous,
  • false,
  • helical,
  • circuitous,
  • mistrustfully,
  • jesuitical,
  • slippery,
  • not kosher,
  • sinuous,
  • corrupted,
  • twisty,
  • felonious,
  • Deduced,
  • circumlocutionary,
  • planetary,
  • Delitescent,
  • circumlocutory,
  • corrupt,
  • presumed,
  • reticent,
  • sinister,
  • derived,
  • rotate,
  • turning,
  • corroborative,
  • spiral,
  • over,
  • coming,
  • circumlocution,
  • Ill-got,
  • not original,
  • askant,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Non-essential,
  • wry,
  • periphrastic,
  • indirectness,
  • walk about,
  • bring,
  • roll,
  • crafty,
  • dishonest,
  • take a turn,
  • migrate,
  • cutting,
  • collateral,
  • allusive,
  • stray,
  • slantwise.

Antonyms for Indirect:

• adj.

  • all
    direct.
  • roundabout; unintended
    straight, direct, straightforward.
  • Other antonyms:
    lineal, candid, undisguised, honest, primary, through, unconcealed, open.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    nominative, nominative case, parallel, perpendicular, subject case.