tortuous 音标拼音: [t'ɔrtʃəwəs]
a . 扭曲的,弯曲的,罗唆的,欺骗的
扭曲的,弯曲的,罗唆的,欺骗的
tortuous adj 1 :
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious ;
"
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 "-
Sir Walter Scott ; "
tortuous legal procedures ";
"
tortuous negotiations lasting for months " [
synonym :
{
Byzantine }, {
convoluted }, {
involved }, {
knotty },
{
tangled }, {
tortuous }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym : {
tortuous },
{
twisting }, {
twisty }, {
winding }, {
voluminous }]
3 :
not straightforward ; "
his tortuous reasoning "
Tortuous \
Tor "
tu *
ous \,
a . [
OE .
tortuos ,
L .
tortuosus ,
fr .
tortus a twisting ,
winding ,
fr .
torquere ,
tortum ,
to twist :
cf .
F .
tortueux .
See {
Torture }.]
1 .
Bent in different directions ;
wreathed ;
twisted ;
winding ;
as ,
a tortuous train ;
a tortuous leaf or corolla .
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1913 Webster ]
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick .
--
Macaulay .
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2 .
Fig .:
Deviating from rectitude ;
indirect ;
erroneous ;
deceitful .
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That course became somewhat lesstortuous ,
when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites . --
Macaulay .
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3 .
Injurious :
tortious . [
Obs .]
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4 . (
Astrol .)
Oblique ; --
applied to the six signs of the zodiac (
from Capricorn to Gemini )
which ascend most rapidly and obliquely . [
Obs .] --
Skeat .
[
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Infortunate ascendent tortuous . --
Chaucer .
[
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Tor "
tu *
ous *
ly },
adv . --
{
Tor "
tu *
ous *
ness },
n .
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1913 Webster ]
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "
tortuous ":
Gongoresque ,
Johnsonian ,
affected ,
ambagious ,
ambiguous ,
anamorphous ,
anfractuous ,
askew ,
asymmetric ,
bedizened ,
bent ,
big -
sounding ,
billowing ,
billowy ,
bowed ,
circuitous ,
circumlocutory ,
cockeyed ,
complicated ,
contorted ,
convoluted ,
convolutional ,
cranky ,
crazy ,
crooked ,
crumpled ,
crunched ,
curled ,
curling ,
curvaceous ,
curvate ,
curvated ,
curve ,
curved ,
curvesome ,
curviform ,
curvilineal ,
curvilinear ,
curving ,
curvy ,
deceptive ,
declamatory ,
deviative ,
devious ,
distorted ,
elevated ,
euphuistic ,
flamboyant ,
flaming ,
flashy ,
flaunting ,
flexuose ,
flexuous ,
fulsome ,
garish ,
gaudy ,
geosynclinal ,
grandiloquent ,
grandiose ,
grandisonant ,
high -
flowing ,
high -
flown ,
high -
flying ,
high -
sounding ,
highfalutin ,
incurvate ,
incurvated ,
incurved ,
incurving ,
indirect ,
inkhorn ,
intricate ,
involute ,
involuted ,
involutional ,
involved ,
irregular ,
labyrinthine ,
lexiphanic ,
lofty ,
lopsided ,
lurid ,
magniloquent ,
mazy ,
meandering ,
meandrous ,
meretricious ,
misleading ,
nonsymmetric ,
one -
sided ,
orotund ,
ostentatious ,
overdone ,
overelaborate ,
overinvolved ,
overwrought ,
pedantic ,
pompous ,
pretentious ,
recurvate ,
recurvated ,
recurved ,
recurving ,
rhetorical ,
rivose ,
rivulose ,
roundabout ,
ruffled ,
sensational ,
sensationalistic ,
sententious ,
serpentine ,
showy ,
sinuate ,
sinuose ,
sinuous ,
snaky ,
sonorous ,
sprung ,
stilted ,
tall ,
torsional ,
tortile ,
tricky ,
turning ,
twisted ,
twisting ,
twisty ,
undulant ,
unstraightforward ,
unsymmetric ,
wandering ,
warped ,
wavy ,
whorled ,
winding ,
wreathlike ,
wreathy ,
zigzag
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