Tortuous
['tɔːtʃʊəs;-jʊəs] or ['tɔrtʃuəs]
Definition
(adj.) not straightforward; 'his tortuous reasoning' .
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
(a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
(a.) Injurious: tortious.
(a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Crooked, sinuous, circuitous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out.[2]. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect.
Editor: Omar
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Devious, circuitous, anfractuous, ambiguous, complicated, sinuous, deceitful,crooked, twisting, indirect, sinister, indexed
ANT:Right, straight, direct, rectilinear, straightforward, undeviating
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Definition
adj. twisted winding: (fig.) deceitful.—adj. Tor′tuōse twisted: wreathed: winding.—n. Tortuos′ity state of being tortuous.—adv. Tor′tuously.—n. Tor′tuousness.
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Examples
- A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Through this valley the river meanders in the most tortuous way, varying in direction to all points of the compass. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Just beyond the gorge the valley is narrow, and the creek so tortuous that it has to be crossed a great many times in the course of the first mile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And in no other regard do we find the rich tortuous humanity of the American story so finely displayed as in regard to slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A small stove, used occasionally in the winter, was connected to the chimney by a tortuous pipe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The way led through a maze of tortuous corridors, unlighted save for the wavering light they carried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is narrow, very tortuous, and fringed with a very heavy growth of timber, but it is deep. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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