Tortuous

What do we mean by tortuous?

Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting. adjective

Not straightforward; circuitous; devious. adjective

Highly involved; complex. adjective

Full of twists or turns; winding; hence, crooked; zigzag.

Oblique: applied in astrology to the six zodiacal signs which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Figuratively, circuitous; devious; irregular; crooked: especially in a moral sense.

Synonyms Sinuous, serpentine, curvilinear, circuitous, indirect, roundabout.

An obsolete variant of tortious.

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding. adjective

Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. adjective

Injurious: tortious. adjective

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

Twisted; having many turns; convoluted. adjective

Injurious; tortious adjective

Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely adjective

Marked by repeated turns and bends adjective

Not straightforward adjective

Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious adjective

Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Injurious; tortious.

Words that are spelled similarly to tortuous:
tortuous, torturous, tortious, tortulous, virtuous, vertuous, torvous, tortures, tortuose, torous, porteous, tortos, tortugas, hortulus, torulus, portunus, torteaus, torulous, tortuosum, tartous, mortuus, tortueux, tortus.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tortuous:
frass, blotch, cranial, commune, widening, rugged, artery, corridor, tooth, path, deposited, leaf, nerve, larvae, branches, dense, course, narrow, route, channels, margin, mine, reaches, cutting, vessels, roads, negotiations, journey, plain, mountain, outer, continues, passage, stream, filled, ridge, village, road, gallery, occurs, apart.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tortuous:
torturous, numerous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tortuous:
course, path, vessels, paths, way, veins, streets, road, process, route, channels, channel, policy, ways, arteries, journey, negotiations, artery, history, passages, windings, passage, trail, roads, lanes, diplomacy, line, courses, branches, aorta, lines, manner, river, vessel, stream, nature, track, routes, reasoning, alleys, capillaries, vein, methods, processes, mind, maze, evolution, progress, canals, canal, logic, tube, style, trails, curves, ureter, tubes, street, intrigues, glands, climb, arguments, ureters, pathways, argument, pathway, labyrinth, politics, mazes, miles, struggle, twists, appearance, valleys, fashion, procedure, curve, descent, tubules, terrain, segments, valley, folds, duct, career, intrigue, tracks, lane, death, trip.

Words that sound like tortuous:
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