Definitions for indirect

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indirect in·di·rect

Spelling: [in-duh-rekt, -dahy-]

IPA: /ˌɪn dəˈrɛkt, -daɪ-/

Indirect is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in indirect (cdeiinrt).

Definitions for indirect

adjective

1. not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout:
2. coming or resulting otherwise than directly or immediately, as effects or consequences:
3. not direct in action or procedure:
4. not straightforward; devious; deceitful:
5. not direct in bearing, application, force, etc.:
6. of, relating to, or characteristic of indirect discourse:
7. not descending in a direct line of succession, as a title or inheritance.

Origin of indirect

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word indīrēctus. See in-³, direct

Examples for indirect

It would be difficult, however, to overestimate its indirect consequences.

Instead, officials are musing about indirect sources of supply, by and through third countries.

Police arrested Brooks under a little-known Nevada law that prohibits threats, direct or indirect, against a public officer.

And the new channels tend to be underground, indirect, and unaccountable.

The Saudis don't want an open break with Washington, so their critique is indirect.

Do not grudge labour where the return may be remote and indirect.

Moreover the science has indirect effects, which are not small.

Then here is indirect heredity, that of the collateral branches.

Living with the threat of random death raining down leads to a strange way of life, a pathology of indirect fire.

The lights which he throws on his subject are indirect, but they are not the less real for that.