indirect
adjective
[ ɪndɪˈrɛkt ]
• not directly caused by or resulting from something.
• "full employment would have an indirect effect on wage levels"
Similar:
incidental,
accidental,
unintended,
secondary,
subordinate,
ancillary,
collateral,
concomitant,
accompanying,
contingent,
resulting,
resultant,
consequential,
derived,
derivative,
• (of a route) not straight; not following the shortest way.
• "he took a careful, indirect route home from his dockside rendezvous"
Similar:
roundabout,
circuitous,
deviant,
divergent,
wandering,
meandering,
serpentine,
winding,
curving,
tortuous,
zigzag,
anfractuous,
• avoiding direct mention or exposition of a subject.
• "an indirect attack on the Archbishop"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘not in full grammatical concord’): from medieval Latin indirectus, from in- ‘not’ + directus (see direct).
