Tortuous means twisting or complicated. "James Bond drove his custom BMW 120 mph on the road that was tortuous in its twists and turns. He had to stop the evil madman's plan for world domination that was so tortuous even 007 could not understand it."
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
Adjective S.
not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
Adjective S.
highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by lab
Adjective S.
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"
a.
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
a.
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
a.
Injurious: tortious.
a.
Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from
Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Tortuous
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.2.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites.3.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous.--
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
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