- Dictionary
- I
- Indirect
- Related Words
Words related to indirect
in·di·rect
I i -
give
to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone. -
hint
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue: Give me a hint as to his identity. -
indirect address
the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address. -
indirect discourse
discourse consisting not of an exact quotation of a speaker's words but of a version transformed from them for grammatical inclusion in a larger sentence. He said he was hungry is an example of indirect discourse. -
irony
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. -
oblique
neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.