Definitions for Tortuous
ˈtɔr tʃu əstor·tu·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuousadjective

   highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

   "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

2. tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminousadjective

   marked by repeated turns and bends

   "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"

3. tortuousadjective

   not straightforward

   "his tortuous reasoning"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tortuousadjective

   Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tortuousadjective

   Etymology: tortueux, Fr. from tortuosus, tortus, Lat.

   1. Twisted; wreathed; winding.

   So vary’d he, and of his tortuous train
   Curl’d many a wanton wreath. John Milton.

   Aqueous vapours, like a dry wind, pass through so long and tortuous a pipe of lead. Boyle.

   2. Mischievous. [Thus I explain it, on supposition that it is derived from tort, wrong; but it may mean crooked: as we say, crooked ways for bad practices, crooked being regularly enough opposite to right. This in some copies is tortious, and therefore from tort.]

   Ne ought he car’d whom he endamaged
   By tortuous wrong, or whom bereav’d of right. Fa. Qu.

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1. tortuous

   Tortuous refers to something that is extremely complex, twisted or winding, often in a misleading or indirect manner. It can be used to describe anything from a physical path or route to an argument, process, or method that is complicated and hard to follow. The term can also refer to a situation or condition that involves many confusing changes or difficulties.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tortuousadjective

   bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla

2. Tortuousadjective

   fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful

3. Tortuousadjective

   injurious: tortious

4. Tortuousadjective

   oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tortuous

   tor′tū-us, adj. twisted, winding: (fig.) deceitful.—adj. Tor′tuōse, twisted: wreathed: winding.—n. Tortuos′ity, state of being tortuous.—adv. Tor′tuously.—n. Tor′tuousness. [Fr.,—L. tortuosus—torquēre, tortum, to twist.]

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1. Tortuous

   Torturous vs. Tortuous -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Torturous and Tortuous.

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1. Tortuous

   = Tortuose.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tortuous in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tortuous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Tortuous in a Sentence

1. Antonio Zappulla:

   No one can begin to imagine what Nazanin has endured throughout the past tortuous six years; denied her freedoms, separated from her husband and young child, battling significant illness, thrown in solitary confinement, an innocent victim of an international dispute, Nazanin has been one of many used as political pawns. Her treatment has been utterly inhumane.

2. Jared Polis:

   Colorado has joined a growing list of states that have banned so-called conversion therapy, it's a tortuous practice that has long been widely-discredited by medical and mental health professionals.

3. Karen Bass:

   I think when people witnessed the really slow, tortuous murder of George Floyd, it was just not up for debate, i think the American people were horrified.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Tortuous
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tortuous
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Tortuous
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tortuous
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Tortuous
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=Tortuous