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    tortuous

    tortuous - Dictionary definition and meaning for word tortuous

    Definition
    (adj) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
    Example Sentence
    • 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
    Definition
    (adj) marked by repeated turns and bends
    Synonyms : twisting , twisty , voluminous , winding
    Example Sentence
    • a tortuous road up the mountain
    • winding roads are full of surprises
    • had to steer the car down a twisty track
    Definition
    (adj) not straightforward
    Example Sentence
    • his tortuous reasoning
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for tortuous

a tortoise does not move in straight line... it keeps twisting and turning making path complicated.

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tortuous - torque(twisting)uous: full of twisting

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TORTUre fOr US to follow

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tortoise mosquito coil will not be straight it is twisted and winded . Tortoise coil is in rhyming with tortuous.

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The Tortuous Spiral Maze, which had a lot of twists and turns, had everyone perplexed.

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The Tortuous Spiral Maze (which has a lot of twists and turns) had everynone perplexed.

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if u remember contort it means to twist out shape. tortuous meaning is very close to that.

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tortuous can be compared to circuitous.. And both means almost same

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the pronunciation of this word is not simple, it twists the tongue

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