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tortuous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled |
| Derivation | tortuousness |
tortuous legal procedures.
tortuous negotiations lasting for months.
tortuous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding |
| Derivation | tortuosity, tortuousness |
a tortuous road up the mountain.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | tortuousness |
his tortuous reasoning.
Examples of tortuous
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The patient has DOW constipation with Euro Stoxx-50 enlarged and tortuous veins.
From the economist.com
Chaz has stood by her husband's side throughout his tortuous battle with cancer.
From the abcnews.go.com
Harrington, 33, of Sugar House, can thank Cameron Hoffman for his tortuous race.
From the sltrib.com
Few business undertakings are more tortuous than closing a European car factory.
From the nytimes.com
That will be welcome news to anyone embarking on the tortuous road to expertise.
From the newscientist.com
Meanwhile back at the parliament the democratic process wends its tortuous ways.
From the guardian.co.uk
Climate change negotiations are slow and tortuous, and time is not on his side.
From the independent.co.uk
Nykisa Gray thought she could make it without help despite a tortuous upbringing.
From the sacbee.com
The only way to change it is by the tortuous process of constitutional amendment.
From the time.com
- Byzantine: 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"; ...
- 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"
- Not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
- (tortuously) with twists and turns
- (tortuousness) tortuosity: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
- (tortuousness) complicatedness: puzzling complexity
- Twisted; having many turns; convoluted
- (Tortues) makes good use of the well-known Can-can from Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, playing the usually breakneck-speed melody at a slow, drooping pace.
- Twisted and bent in different directions.
