Thesaurus: tortuous

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1. a. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
2. a. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
3. a. Injurious: tortious.
4. a. Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
5. adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
6. adj. marked by repeated turns and bends
7. adj. not straightforward
8. 1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay. 2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay. 3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.] 4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
9. Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (fromCapricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.]Skeat.Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer.--Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv.-- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
10. j:100 s. marked by repeated turns and bends s. not straightforward