indirectly
/ˌɪndɪˈrɛk(t)li
/adverb
1In a way that is not directly caused by something; incidentally: the losses indirectly affect us all...
- A vaccine is supposed to "create" antibodies which, indirectly, offer protection against disease.
- Conversely, selective foraging by herbivores alters plant community composition, which indirectly decreases nitrogen cycling.
- He or she must not undermine the primacy of democratic law-making by the organs of government directly or indirectly accountable to the people.
Synonyms
incidentally, accidentally, secondarily, concomitantly, contingently, consequentially
second-hand, at second hand, in a roundabout way, from others
informal on the grapevine, on the bush/jungle telegraph
obliquely, by implication, by hinting, allusively
2Without having had direct experience; at second hand: I heard of the damage indirectly...
- The top and bottom items in the process are outside of the control of the project team and can only be observed, influenced, and documented indirectly.
- But then, we can detect pterodactyls and quarks only indirectly too.
- Access to the religious imagination of modern man might be possible only indirectly, through the changing forms of language and also of art and music.
3Through implication; obliquely: both writers refer, if only indirectly, to a wealth of other art...
- He leads a melancholy life, constantly quoting Proust either directly or indirectly.
- She talked, as preachers sometimes do, indirectly about herself.
- The Cuban Revolution, Castro and the excitement of the 1960s appear in the book indirectly.
- resolvative
- resolve
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- resolving time
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- resonance absorption
- resonance capture
- resonance cavity
- resonance chamber
- resonance energy
- resonance fluorescence
- resonance frequency
- resonance hybrid
- resonance level
- resonance radiation
- resonance Raman
- resonance scattering
- resonance stabilization