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Definition of Tortuous

1. Adjective. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. "Tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

2. Adjective. Marked by repeated turns and bends. "Had to steer the car down a twisty track"

3. Adjective. Not straightforward. "His tortuous reasoning"

Definition of Tortuous

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

Definition of Tortuous

1. marked by repeated turns or bends [adj]

Medical Definition of Tortuous

1. 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. 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. 4. Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. "Infortunate ascendent tortuous." (Chaucer) Tor"tuously, Tor"tuousness. Origin: OE. Tortuos, L.tortuosus, fr.tortus a twisting, winding, fr. Torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. Tortueux. See Torture. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortuous

tortoni tortonis tortrices tortricid tortricid Tortricidae tortricids tortricid moth tortrix tortrix

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