Dictionary Entry
tortuous
tortuous is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
- 2adjective
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
- 3adjective
Injurious: tortious.
- 4adjective
Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
- 5adjective
not straightforward
"his tortuous reasoning"
- 6adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious- Sir Walter Scott
"the Byzantine tax structure"
"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
- 7adjective
marked by repeated turns and bends
"a tortuous road up the mountain"
"winding roads are full of surprises"
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