ETYM Pref. in- not + direct: cf. French indirect.
1. Not as a direct effect or consequence.
2. Having intervening factors or persons or influences.
3. Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination.
4. Extended senses: not direct in manner or language or behavior or action.
1. Occupying a middle position
2. Acting through an intervening agency
3. Exhibiting indirect causation, connection, or relation
ETYM French, from Latin obliquus; ob (see Ob-) + liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward.
Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular.
Describing a style of text created by slanting a roman font to simulate italics when a true italic font isn’t available on the computer or printer. See also font, italic, roman.
Slanting; indirect; underhand.
Not in a forthright manner.
Via a mediator, with the help of an intermediary