tortuousness
51tortuosity — n. Crookedness, sinuosity, curvature, bend, crook, winding, tortuousness …
52tortuous — adjective 1 a tortuous path, stream, road etc has a lot of bends in it and is therefore difficult to travel along: a tortuous path over the mountains to Kandahar 2 complicated and long and therefore confusing: The book begins with a long,… …
53irregularity — n 1. asymmetry, lack of symmetry, unequality, unequalness; unevenness, roughness, jag gedness, ruggedness, cragginess; lumpiness, bunchiness, humpiness; crookedness, circuitousness, circuity, roundaboutness, tortuousness, deviousness. 2.… …
54tortuosity — n 1. crookedness, twistedness, anfrac tuosity, sinuousness, tortuousness; sinuosity, curve, bend, turn, crook, twist, convolution; maze, labyrinth. 2. indirectness, circuitousness, ambagiousness, evasiveness, unstraightforwardness; deviousness,… …
55tortuous — UK [ˈtɔː(r)tʃuəs] / US [ˈtɔrtʃuəs] adjective 1) twisting and turning around many bends a tortuous route 2) extremely complicated a tortuous process Derived words: tortuously adverb tortuousness noun uncountable …
56tortuous — /ˈtɔtʃuəs / (say tawchoohuhs) adjective 1. full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked. 2. not direct or straightforward as in a course of procedure, thought, speech, or writing: *He d forgotten that Algie s tortuous grammar… …
57convolution — [n] loop, spiral coil, coiling, complexity, contortion, curlicue, flexing, gyration, helix, intricacy, involution, serpentine, sinuosity, sinuousness, snaking, swirl, tortuousness, twist, undulation, winding; concept 436 Ant. line, straightness …
58tortuosity — tortuous ► ADJECTIVE 1) full of twists and turns. 2) excessively lengthy and complex. DERIVATIVES tortuosity noun tortuously adverb tortuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin tortuosus, from torquere to twist …
59tortuous — ► ADJECTIVE 1) full of twists and turns. 2) excessively lengthy and complex. DERIVATIVES tortuosity noun tortuously adverb tortuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin tortuosus, from torquere to twist …
60tortuously — tortuous ► ADJECTIVE 1) full of twists and turns. 2) excessively lengthy and complex. DERIVATIVES tortuosity noun tortuously adverb tortuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin tortuosus, from torquere to twist …
