tortuous

  • 31tortuous / torturous —    Tortuous means winding, crooked, with many twists and turns : Wiley Driver was very adept at driving the tortuous mountain roads of western North Carolina.    Torturous means very painful, like torture : Mick Stupp found doing math homework… …

    Confused words

  • 32Tortuous — …

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  • 33tortuous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambagious, ambiguous, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, bedizened, bent, big sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed, circuitous, circumlocutory, cockeyed, complicated,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 34tortuous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. spiral, snaky, sinuous, serpentine; winding, crooked. See convolution. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Winding] Syn. snaky, sinuous, twisting; see crooked 1 , winding . 2. [Not straightforward] Syn.… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 35tortuous — see TORMENT …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 36tortuous — tor·tu·ous || tÉ”rtʃʊəs / tɔː adj. twisting, winding, bending; marked by tricky tactics, crooked …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 37tortuous — a. 1. Crooked, sinuous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out, wreathed, twisted, mazy, flexuous. 2. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, deceitful, wrong, erroneous, mischievous,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 38tortuous — adj 1. twisting, winding, anfractuous, flexuous, sinuous, sinuate, undulating, serpentine, snaky, vermiculate, zigzag; turning, meandering, curvilinear, curved, curvy; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute; tortile, twisted, crooked, bent; mazy …

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  • 39tortuous — tor·tu·ous …

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  • 40tortuous — see TORMENT …

    Word origins

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