Meaning & use
indirect
Not following the most direct path, and instead going by a roundabout or less obvious route.
See it in a sentence
They took an indirect route through the mountains to avoid the closed highway.
His indirect answer made it hard to tell whether he actually agreed with the plan.
A note on using this word
Indirect can describe a physical path or a way of speaking that avoids being explicit.
Words with a similar meaning
roundaboutcircuitous
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Words with an opposite meaning
directstraightforward
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