tortuous

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

2. a. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. Source: opted

3. a. Injurious: tortious. Source: opted

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

5. adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious Source: wordnet

6. adj. marked by repeated turns and bends Source: wordnet

7. adj. not straightforward Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

10. j:100 s. marked by repeated turns and bends s. not straightforward Source: ecdict

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