indirect expression

1. 1.

   an indirect way of expressing something

   Synonymscircumlocution

   Broaderevasion

Questions about indirect expression

What does indirect expression mean?

indirect expression means "an indirect way of expressing something".

What is another word for indirect expression?

Close synonyms include circumlocution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indirect expression a common word?

indirect expression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.