indirect

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective having intervening factors or persons or influences
adjective not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
adjective descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).

“An indirect sort of way. — The Car of Destiny, C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
The pronoun is indirect object. — Tres Comedias : $b Sin querer; De pequenas causas...; Los intereses creados, Jacinto Benavente
Fairfield could not understand this indirect method of attack. — The Grell Mystery, Frank Froest

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