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indirect

English

  1. 🔊 not direct in spatial dimension
    “sometimes taking an indirect path saves time”
  2. 🔊 extended senses
    “making indirect but legitimate inquiries”
  3. 🔊 having intervening factors or persons or influences
    “reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light”
  4. 🔊 not as a direct effect or consequence
    “indirect benefits”
  5. 🔊 descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
    “cousins are collateral relatives”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 indirecto indirect, roundabout

Similar words

collateral o-shaped aberrant aberrative accessory accidental additional adscititious adventitious ambagious amoral ancillary artful backhand backhanded calculating chiseling circuitous circular circumambient circumlocutional circumlocutory collateral collusive