Synonyms of the word

indirect

• adj. Not direct; roundabout; deceiving; setting a trap; confusing.

allusive

• adj. That contains or makes use of allusions (indirect references or hints).

ambagious

• adj. Roundabout; vague.
• adj. Indefinite.

askance

• adv. (of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
• adv. Sideways; obliquely.
• adj. Turned to the side, especially of the eyes.

askant

• adj. (dated) Aslant, or sloping.
• adv. (dated) Aslant, or askance, or sideways.

asquint

• adj. Looking sideways, as though warily.
• adv. With narrowed eyes.

backhanded

• adj. With the back of the hand.
• adj. Involving a backward flip of the hand.
• adj. Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
• adj. Indirect.
• adj. Backwards, turned around.
• adj. (of writing) inclining to the left.
• adj. Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
• adj. Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of backhand.
• adv. In a backhanded manner.

circuitous

• adj. Not direct or to the point.
• adj. Of a long and winding route.

circumlocutious

• adj. circumlocutional.

circumlocutory

• adj. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic; verbose.

collateral

• adj. Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
• adj. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
• adj. Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
• adj. Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
• adj. Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
• adj. Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
• adj. Coming or directed along the side.
• adj. Acting in an indirect way.
• n. A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough…
• n. (now rare) A collateral (not linear) family member.
• n. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
• n. (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short…
• n. A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.

crooked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
• adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
• adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
• adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

devious

• adj. Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.

digressive

• adj. Marked by digression; rambling.

discursive

• adj. (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
• adj. (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

diversionary

• adj. That serves as a diversion.

excursive

• adj. Tending to digress.

hearsay

• n. Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
• n. (law) Evidence based on the reports of others rather than on personal knowledge, which is normally inadmissible…
• n. (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted, which is normally…
• adj. (law) that is related to, contains, or tells hearsay.

mealy-mouthed

• adj. prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.

mealymouthed

• adj. Alternative form of mealy-mouthed.

meandering

• v. present participle of meander.
• adj. winding or rambling.
• n. An instance or period or roaming.

mediate

• v. (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
• v. (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about…
• v. To divide into two equal parts.
• v. To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey.
• adj. Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
• adj. Intermediate between extremes.
• adj. Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

oblique

• adj. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
• adj. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
• adj. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
• adj. (botany) Of leaves, having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
• adj. (botany) Of branches or roots, growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
• adj. (music) Employing one of the three contrapuntal motions, namely, 1. Parallel, 2. Contrary and 3. Oblique…
• n. (geometry) An oblique line.
• n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
• n. (grammar) The oblique case.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
• v. (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished…
• v. (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.

periphrastic

• adj. Expressed in more words than are necessary.
• adj. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
• adj. (grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.

rambling

• v. present participle of ramble.
• adj. Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
• adj. Confused and irregular; awkward.
• n. A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
• n. A gentle hike.

related

• adj. Standing in relation or connection.
• adj. Being a relative of.
• adj. Narrated; told.
• adj. (music) Same as the adjective relative.
• adj. (mathematics) Fulfilling a relation.
• adj. (in combination) Having a relationship with the thing named.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of relate.

roundabout

• adj. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
• adj. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Canada and Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis…
• n. A fairground carousel.
• n. A detour.
• n. A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

secondary

• adj. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
• adj. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
• adj. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic…
• adj. (geology) produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass.
• adj. (geology) developed by pressure or other causes.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
• adj. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
• adj. Of less than primary importance.
• adj. (education) related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18.
• adj. (manufacturing) relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
• adj. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
• n. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
• n. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or…
• n. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
• n. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
• n. (astronomy) A satellite.
• n. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

sidelong

• adj. Directed to the side; sideways.
• adj. Slanting or sloping; oblique.
• adj. Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
• adv. Towards the side; sideways.
• adv. obliquely.

squint

• v. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
• v. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
• v. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion…
• v. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
• v. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
• n. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
• n. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
• n. A quick or sideways glance.
• n. A short look.
• n. A hagioscope.
• n. (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased…
• adj. (Scotland) askew, not level.

squint-eyed

• adj. Having eyes that squint; cross-eyed.
• adj. Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant.

squinty

• adj. Afflicted with a squint.
• adj. sidelong.

tortuous

• adj. Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
• adj. (obsolete) injurious; tortious.
• adj. (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most…

wandering

• adj. Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
• adj. (medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
• n. Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
• n. Irregular turning of the eyes.
• n. Aimless thought.
• n. Straying from a desired path.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
• v. present participle of wander.

winding

• v. present participle of wind.
• n. something wound around something else.
• n. the manner in which something is wound.
• n. one complete turn of something wound.
• n. (electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
• adj. twisting, turning or sinuous.
• adj. spiral or helical.
• v. present participle of wind.
• n. the act or process of winding (turning around).