Vi fant 7 definisjoner av tortuous på engelsk.
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| tortuous - marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" | ||
| twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous | ||
| crooked having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" | ||
| tortuous - not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning" | ||
| indirect not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing" | ||
| tortuous - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" | ||
| Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled | ||
| complex complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" | ||
