What does tortuous mean?
Definitions for tortuous
ˈtɔr tʃu əstor·tu·ous
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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"
tortuousadjective
not straightforward
"his tortuous reasoning"
Wiktionary
tortuousadjective
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tortuousadjective
Etymology: tortueux, Fr. from tortuosus, tortus, Lat.
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.
Ne ought he car’d whom he endamaged
By tortuous wrong, or whom bereav’d of right. Fa. Qu.
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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 Dictionary
Tortuousadjective
bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla
Tortuousadjective
fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful
Tortuousadjective
injurious: tortious
Tortuousadjective
oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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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Entomology
Tortuous
= Tortuose.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tortuous in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tortuous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of tortuous in a Sentence
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.
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.
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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