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has gloss(adjective) extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
indirect
lexicalizationeng: indirect
Meaning
Bengali
lexicalizationben: পরক্ষ
Catalan
lexicalizationcat: indirecte
Welsh
lexicalizationcym: anuniongyrchol
German
lexicalizationdeu: mittelbar
Esperanto
lexicalizationepo: nerekta
Basque
lexicalizationeus: zeharkako
French
lexicalizationfra: indirect
Galician
lexicalizationglg: indirecto
Hiligaynon
lexicalizationhil: ditadlong
Italian
lexicalizationita: indiretto
Japanese
lexicalizationjpn: 婉曲
Macedonian
lexicalizationmkd: индиректен
Dutch
lexicalizationnld: indirect
lexicalizationnld: onrechtstreeks
Polish
lexicalizationpol: pośredni
Portuguese
lexicalizationpor: indireto
Vlaams
lexicalizationvls: indirect
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opposite(adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
direct
similar(adjective) characterized by indirect references; "allusive speech is characterized by allusions"
allusive
similar(adjective) roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
backhanded
similar(adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"
roundabout, circuitous
similar(adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
circumlocutious, ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic
similar(adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
devious, oblique
similar(adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
rambling, discursive, digressive, excursive
similar(adjective) heard through another rather than directly; "hearsay information"
hearsay
similar(adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician"
mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed
similar(adjective) not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
tortuous
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