meaning of tortuous
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
2. Fig. : Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
3. Injurious: tortious.
4. Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
5. not straightforward; "his tortuous
">reasoning"
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tortuous | tortuously | tortuousness |
