indirectly

Definitions

1. In an indirect manner
2. Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.
3. Not proceeding straight to the point or object.
4. Not directly planned for; secondary: indirect benefits.
5. Reporting the exact or approximate words of another with such changes as are necessary to bring the original statement into grammatical conformity with the sentence in which it is included: indirect discourse.
6. Logic Involving, relating to, or being the proof of a statement by the demonstration of the impossibility or absurdity of the statement's negation.
   Logic
7. Sports Being an indirect free kick.
   Sports
8. by implication, in a roundabout way, circumlocutorily Drugs are indirectly responsible for the violence.
9. obliquely, in a roundabout way, evasively, not in so many words, circuitously, periphrastically He referred indirectly to the territorial dispute.
10. second-hand, on the grapevine (informal) He'd heard, indirectly, that I was a major opponent of their plan.
    (informal)
11. adv → indirekt
    adv

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