Definition for Tortuous:

• Tortuously.

Synonyms for Tortuous:

• adj.

  •agonizing (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • torturing,
  • most struggling,
  • more racking,
  • most racking,
  • in tense,
  • in-tensest,
  • more torturing,
  • more tearing,
  • more struggling,
  • in tenser,
  • most torturing,
  • in tensest,
  • most tearing,
  • vehement,
  • extreme,
  • in-tense.
  •all (adjective)
  • involved,
  • tortuous,
  • knotty,
  • convoluted,
  • tangled.
  •byzantine (adjective)
  • de-tailed,
  • de tailed.
  •circuitous (adjective)
  • more ambagious,
  • meandering,
  • most ambagious.
  •complex (adjective)
  • puzzling,
  • knotted,
  • paradoxical,
  • involute,
  • motley,
  • inter-woven,
  • mazy,
  • round-about,
  • multiplex.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • deceptive,
  • misleading,
  • ambiguous,
  • cunning.
  •convoluted (adjective)
  • serpentine,
  • whorled,
  • turning,
  • coiled,
  • twisting.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • Incurving,
  • mis-shapen,
  • Tortile,
  • topsyturvy,
  • out of shape,
  • not straight,
  • warped,
  • Agee,
  • Knurly,
  • tilted,
  • screwy,
  • catawampus.
  •deviating (adjective)
  • aberrative,
  • excursionary,
  • Heteroclite,
  • excursional.
  •devious (adjective)
  • more detouring,
  • most confounding,
  • most digressing,
  • more digressory,
  • most detouring,
  • more digressing,
  • more confounding,
  • mis-leading,
  • re moved,
  • most digressory,
  • mis leading,
  • re-mote,
  • de touring,
  • de-touring.
  •divergent (adjective)
  • Deviating.
  •punishing (adjective)
  • punishing,
  • penalizing,
  • Imprisoning,
  • distressing,
  • Persecuting,
  • anguishing,
  • confining,
  • Incarcerating,
  • Disciplining,
  • chastening,
  • burdensome,
  • Crucifying.
  •roundabout (adjective)
  • obliquitous,
  • taking the long way.
  •sinuous (adjective)
  • deviative,
  • Undulating,
  • twisting and turning.
  •snaky (adjective)
  • more entwined,
  • writhing,
  • most entwined.
  •tormenting (adjective)
  • more suffering.
  •twisted (adjective)
  • more curled,
  • most wound,
  • most curled,
  • wry,
  • more braided,
  • most braided,
  • more wound.
  •verbose (adjective)
  • tautological,
  • yacking,
  • palaverous,
  • repetitious,
  • repetitive,
  • full of air,
  • Tautologous.
  •very twisted (adjective)
  • vermiculate,
  • curved.
  •winding (adjective)
  • most gyrating,
  • more gyrating,
  • most spiraling,
  • wrigglier,
  • more spiraling,
  • wriggliest.
  •zigzag (adjective)
  • more waggling,
  • more crinkled,
  • most waggling,
  • most crinkled,
  • more fluctuating,
  • trans verse,
  • most oscillating,
  • trans-verse,
  • more oscillating.

• n.

  •
  • confusing,
  • incomprehensible,
  • elaborate,
  • complicated,
  • confused,
  • difficult,
  • contorted.
  •
  • tricky,
  • wicked,
  • deceitful,
  • perverse.
  •tortuous (noun)
  • twisty.

• Other synonyms:

  •Byzantine
  • byzantine.
  •
  • Meandrous,
  • flexuous.
  •
  • oblique,
  • circular.
  •unprincipled
  • unscrupulous.

Paraphrases for Tortuous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    convoluted.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    onerous, tough, crooked, burdensome.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    arduous, laborious, circuitous, difficult, complicated, cumbersome, painful.

Antonyms for Tortuous:

• adj.

  • very twisted
    straight, straightforward, easy, untwisted, simple, uninvolved, uncomplicated, direct.
  • Other antonyms:
    straightaway, linear.

Tortuous Sentence Examples:

• Henceforth her path was difficult, tortuous, and weary.

• The darkness wreathed itself into mocking and tortuous bodies whose faces were hidden.