Meaning of indirectly | Babel Free
Definitions
- In an indirect manner
- Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.
- Not proceeding straight to the point or object.
- Not directly planned for; secondary: indirect benefits.
- 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.
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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
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Sports Being an indirect free kick. Sports
- by implication, in a roundabout way, circumlocutorily Drugs are indirectly responsible for the violence.
- obliquely, in a roundabout way, evasively, not in so many words, circuitously, periphrastically He referred indirectly to the territorial dispute.
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second-hand, on the grapevine (informal) He'd heard, indirectly, that I was a major opponent of their plan. (informal)
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adv → indirekt adv
Equivalents
العربية
بشكل غير مباشر
Català
indirectament
Čeština
nepřímo
Deutsch
indirekt
Ελληνικά
πλαγίως
Esperanto
nerekte
Magyar
közvetve
Kurdî
indîrekt
Nederlands
onrechtstreeks
Русский
косвенно
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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