Definition of Tortuous

  • (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.

Antonyms of Tortuous


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Homophones of Tortuous


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