Implication and Indirect

noun

• Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
  • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • synonyms: deduction, entailment
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, import
• An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
• A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
• A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
  • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

• (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.

adjective

• Having intervening factors or persons or influences.
  • usage: "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
• Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination.
  • usage: "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
• Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines.
  • usage: "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"
  • synonyms: collateral
• Extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action.
  • usage: "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
• Not as a direct effect or consequence.
  • usage: "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage"

• (a.) Not tending to an aim, purpose or result by the plainest course or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer or proposal.
• (a.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc.
• (a.) Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive.
• (a.) Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
• (a.) Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results, damages or claims.