indirect (EN)

adjective

adjective “indirect”

1. not saying something directly; hinting at it or talking around it
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   She made an indirect comment about the issue, hoping he would understand.
2. not going in a straight line or the shortest way; roundabout
   We took an indirect route to avoid the traffic.
3. not caused by something immediately, but as a result of something else
   The policy changes had indirect effects on the economy.
4. (in mathematics) involving proof by contradiction or the contrapositive
   The mathematician used an indirect method to prove the theorem.