What does tortuous mean?
Tortuous means (often figurative) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted..
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/ˈtɔːt͡ʃuːəs/ · adjective
(often figurative) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted..
2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in The New York Times, It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
But the early Tubes still tended to follow the public streets in order to save money, hence some tortuous curves.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous.
Use tortuous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tortuous means (often figurative) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted..
Common synonyms include byzantine, intricate, convoluted, complex.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in The New York Times, It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
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