undirectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From un- +‎ direct.

動詞

undirect (third-person singular simple present undirects, present participle undirecting, simple past and past participle undirected)

1. (transitive) To misdirect; mislead.
   • 1647, Tho[mas] Fuller, “Meditations on the Times”, in Good Thoughts in Worse Times. […], London: […] W. W. for John Williams […], →OCLC, section II (Wofull Wealth), pages 99–100:

     BArbarous is the cuſtome of ſome Engliſh People on the Sea ſide, to prey on the goods of poore ſhipwrack’t Merchants. But more diveliſh in their deſigne, who make falſe fires, to undirect Sea-men in a Tempeſt, that thereby from the right Road, they may be miſled into danger and deſtruction.

語源 2

From un- (“not”) +‎ direct.

形容詞

undirect (comparative more undirect, superlative most undirect)

1. Not direct.

同意語

• indirect

派生語

• undirectly

アナグラム

• reinduct, untriced, uncredit