Word Meanings - INDIRECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

• Direct-acting
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
• Indirected
  Not directed; aimless.
• Straight-lined
  Having straight lines.
• STRAIGHTOUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.] Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• Indirection
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
• Straightly
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• STRAIGHTPIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak.
• Circuitous
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
• Direction
  The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
• Indirectly
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.
• Straightness
  The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
• STRAIGHTSPOKEN
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] Lowell.
• Directive
  Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
• Indirectness
  The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
• Straight-out
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
• Rectilinear
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.

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