Antonyms of noun indirect_discourse

1 sense of indirect discourse

Sense 1
indirect discourse -- (a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'"))
       Antonym of direct discourse (Sense 1)
      => direct discourse, direct quotation -- (a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'"))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun indirect_discourse

1 sense of indirect discourse

Sense 1
indirect discourse -- (a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'"))
       => report, account -- (the act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple")