Synonyms of indirect

1 Syllable

long

2 Syllables

wriggly, zigzag, tacit, devious, virtual, subtlest, winding, sneakier, snaking, distant, twisting, rambling, sneaking, sinuous, meandrous, implied, sneaky, subtler, vagrant, crooked, sider, tortuous, agee, sneakiest, snaky

3 Syllables

deceitful, anfractuous, erratic, incurving, deputed, unstated, long-drawn-out, long-winded, hairline, wandering, obscure, meandering, euphemious, oblique, circular, uncandid, disklike, circulars, underhand, ambiguous, second-hand, contingent, eventual, sinister, sidelong, lubricious, vicarious, consequent, spiraling, circuitous

4 Syllables

ancillary, allusive, complicated, periphrastic, excursive, incidental, circumstantial, euphemistic, deceptive, dirty-dealing, serpentine, telescopic, out-of-the-way, snakelike, circinate, discursive, evasive, subsidiary, duplicitous, collateral, secondary, disingenuous, derivate

5 Syllables

vermiculate, substitutional, extenuative

6 Syllables

circumlocutory