indirect
indirect
(ɪndaɪrekt , -dɪr- )1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
An indirect result or effect is not caused immediately and obviously by a thing or person, but happens because of something else that they have done.
Businesses are feeling the indirect effects from the recession that's going on elsewhere.
Millions could die of hunger as an indirect result of the war.
His influence has been profound, but it has been indirect.
indirectly adverb [usually ADVERB adjective] [ADVERB with verb]
Drugs are indirectly responsible for the violence.
The president is indirectly elected by parliament.
Indirectly, I did cause her death. I shouldn't have left her there.
2. adjective
The goods went by a rather indirect route.
3. adjective
Indirect remarks and information suggest something or refer to it, without actually mentioning it or stating it clearly.
His remarks amounted to an indirect appeal for economic aid.
There were indirect references to his opponent.
So far the evidence is only indirect.
indirectly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
He referred indirectly to the territorial dispute.
