tortuous

Speech parts

1. tortuous - Adjective

2. tortuous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

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

Injurious: tortious.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

byzantine involved winding twisting voluminous convoluted tangled knotty twisty serpentine gordian difficult complex crooked sigmoid
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Antonyms

frank close direct simple easy brief
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Phrases with the word

tortuous talks

Examples

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one. Anton Chekhov

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. Hesiod

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. Joanne Harris

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been. Fay Wray

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous. Sheena Easton

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. Stephen Gardiner

Close letter words and terms

tortuose tortuosity tortuoslty tortuous talks tortuously tortuousness