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tortuous
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See Torture .] Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a tortuous mountain trail ▪ a twisting, tortuous track through the Snake Mountains ▪ At last, an end to the tortuous negotiations was in sight. ▪ It took six months of tortuous negotiations to reach an agreement. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 twisted; having many turns; convoluted. 2 (context obsolete English) injurious; tortious 3 (context astrology English) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "full of twists and turns," from Anglo-French tortuous (12c.), Old French tortuos , from Latin tortuosus "full of twists, winding," from tortus "a twisting, winding," from stem of torquere "to twist, wring, distort" (see torque (n.)). Related: ...
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