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English adjective: tortuous | |||
| 1. | tortuous highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | ||
| Samples | 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. Tortuous legal procedures. Tortuous negotiations lasting for months. | ||
| Synonyms | Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled | ||
| Similar | complex | ||
| Antonyms | simple | ||
| 2. | tortuous marked by repeated turns and bends | ||
| Samples | A tortuous road up the mountain. Winding roads are full of surprises. Had to steer the car down a twisty track. | ||
| Synonyms | twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding | ||
| Similar | crooked | ||
| Antonyms | straight | ||
| 3. | tortuous not straightforward | ||
| Samples | His tortuous reasoning. | ||
| Similar | indirect | ||
| Antonyms | direct | ||
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