tortuous English

Meaning tortuous meaning

What does tortuous mean?

tortuous

— adjective (= Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled) 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

— adjective (= twisty, winding) 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

— adjective not straightforward his tortuous reasoning

Synonyms tortuous synonyms

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winding

twisting

sinuous

meandering

curved

twisty

zigzag

crooked

spiral

serpentine

bent

wry

voluminous

twisted

tangled

snaky

knotty

involved

devious

convoluted

anfractuous

Byzantine

zigzaging

zigzagging

writhing

wonky

wily

wiggly

warped

vermiculated

vermiculate

vermicular

underhanded

underhand

turbinal

troublesome

tortive

tortile

torquated

squinty

spiry

sophisticated

sneaky

slithering

sinuate

roundabout

oblique

misrepresented

insincere

helical

Topics tortuous topics

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States Quality Shape

Bend

• What words describe something that should be straight but is bent?
  akimbo askew awry bandy catawampus contorted crooked deviating distorted skewed tortuous warped
• What words describe something that has many bends?
  circuitous coiled convoluted corrugated curly curvy kinky meandering pretzel serpentine serrated sinuous snaky spiral tortuous twisting undulating waved waving wavy wind winding zigzag

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Simple, complicated

• What words describe something that is complicated?
  complicated complex intricate elaborate convoluted sophisticated tortuous variable