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List of meaning for tortuous

containing coils, turns and curves

Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous(adj)

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"

tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous(adj)

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"

tortuous(adj)

not straightforward

"his tortuous reasoning"

marked by a long series of irregular curves

a tortuous mountain road marked by numerous hairpin turns

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