indirectly

1. 1.

   not in a forthright manner

   “he answered very indirectly”

   Antonymsdirectly

Questions about indirectly

What does indirectly mean?

indirectly means "not in a forthright manner".

How many syllables are in indirectly?

indirectly has 4 syllables: in-di-rect-ly. The stress falls on "rect". In IPA it is /ˌɪndɚˈɛktˌli/.

What is the opposite of indirectly?

The recorded antonyms are directly.

Is indirectly a common word?

indirectly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with indirectly?

42 words rhyme with indirectly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.