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adj. Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting: a tortuous road through the mountains.

adj. Not straightforward; circuitous; devious: a tortuous plot; tortuous reasoning.

adj. Highly involved; complex: tortuous legal procedures.

adj. Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

adj. injurious; tortious

adj. oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely

adj. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding.

adj. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

adj. Injurious: tortious.

adj. Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Full of twists or turns; winding; hence, crooked; zigzag.

Oblique: applied in astrology to the six zodiacal signs which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Figuratively, circuitous; devious; irregular; crooked: especially in a moral sense.

Synonyms Sinuous, serpentine, curvilinear, circuitous, indirect, roundabout.

An obsolete variant of tortious.

adj. marked by repeated turns and bends

adj. not straightforward

adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

"The 47-year-old Nigerian immigrant and Woodbridge resident says she escaped what she called a tortuous relationship nine years ago, nearly became homeless, and she is now the owner of Certified Skilled Nursing Services and Associates Inc. in Dumfries."

crooked    indirect    complex   

tortuous curve   

wreathed    twisted    winding    indirect    erroneous    deceitful    oblique    sinuous   

devious    circuitous    steep    rutted    sinuous    precipitous    hilly    labyrinthine    muddy    intricate