What is another word for tortuous?
434 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ tˈɔːt͡ʃuːəs], [ tˈɔːtʃuːəs], [ t_ˈɔː_tʃ_uː_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for tortuous:- agonizing (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- byzantine (adjective)
- circuitous (adjective)
- complex (adjective)
- complicated (adjective)
- convoluted (adjective)
- crooked (adjective)
- deviating (adjective)
- devious (adjective)
- divergent (adjective)
- indirect (adjective)
- intricate (adjective)
- involved (adjective)
- punishing (adjective)
- roundabout (adjective)
- sinuous (adjective)
- snaky (adjective)
- tormenting (adjective)
- twisted (adjective)
- verbose (adjective)
- winding (adjective)
- zigzag (adjective)
- other synonyms
- Byzantine
- other relevant words
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.
- Incurving,
- mis-shapen,
- Tortile,
- topsyturvy,
- out of shape,
- not straight,
- warped,
- Agee,
- Knurly,
- tilted,
- screwy,
- catawampus.
- 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.
- more circumlocutory,
- under hand,
- in direct,
- most circumlocutory,
- implied,
- long winded,
- more vagrant,
- in-direct,
- more snaking,
- long drawn out,
- more sidelong,
- most sidelong,
- most snaking,
- most vagrant,
- under-hand,
- periphrastic.
- more high tech,
- most hightech,
- can worms,
- most daedal,
- more daedal,
- most high-tech,
- hightech,
- more hightech,
- more high-tech,
- most high tech.
n.
Other synonyms:
•Byzantine •Other relevant words:- clandestine,
- perplexing,
- vermicular,
- privy,
- high-flown,
- auricular,
- recurvated,
- involve,
- backhanded,
- unfair,
- unorganized,
- twist,
- tell,
- incoherent,
- lopsided,
- commotion,
- magniloquent,
- tumble,
- ostentatious,
- curvilinear,
- incurved,
- vermiform,
- shiftily,
- sigmoid,
- enigmatic,
- Perjured,
- Double-hearted,
- Wreathy,
- illogical,
- bewilder,
- Incurvated,
- corkscrew,
- affected,
- recondite,
- elusive,
- imperfectly,
- confuse,
- curvaceous,
- Circumlocutional,
- recurving,
- wry,
- vermiculate,
- scrambled,
- dishonest,
- sinuosity,
- overelaborate,
- curved,
- get,
- sinuate,
- fussily,
- secret,
- tortuosity,
- disingenuous,
- torque,
- high-flying,
- complicate,
- high-sounding,
- one-sided,
- enlarge,
- gyrate,
- unscrupulous,
- flaming,
- Tortive,
- torsion,
- crookedness,
- gordian,
- beat,
- squirming,
- voluminous,
- elevated,
- convolute,
- unintelligible,
- inarticulate,
- amaze,
- entangled,
- deviously,
- serpent,
- aimless,
- curve,
- cabalistic,
- fling,
- problematic,
- irregular,
- flamboyant,
- curving,
- collateral,
- rivulose,
- dubious,
- pompous,
- sensational,
- overwrought,
- rhetorical,
- garish,
- flashy,
- treacherous,
- crunched,
- spiriferous,
- roll,
- grandiloquent,
- erratic,
- deviousness,
- disconnected,
- dumbfound,
- askew,
- turn,
- tall,
- rococo,
- Circumambient,
- showy,
- confound,
- wind,
- diversionary,
- awry,
- close,
- lurid,
- ornate,
- gnarled,
- swirl,
- sinuousness,
- cryptical,
- lop-sided,
- wordy,
- snake-like,
- curled,
- knobbed,
- deviative,
- snarled,
- jumbled,
- disorganized,
- bowed,
- Euphuistic,
- perfidious,
- pedantic,
- double,
- twisty,
- sensationalistic,
- particularly,
- cockeyed,
- problematical,
- curling,
- False-hearted,
- not straightforward,
- convolution,
- whirl,
- sigmoidal,
- recurvate,
- inviolate,
- windy,
- dark,
- vortex,
- Curvate,
- Sinuose,
- slippery,
- mystic,
- sonorous,
- secondhand,
- declamatory,
- Torsional,
- fancy,
- bending,
- curvy,
- mystify,
- mediate,
- wandering,
- disjointed,
- craftily,
- ruffled,
- undated,
- tortuousness,
- tough,
- insidious,
- fishy,
- unsymmetrical,
- bedizened,
- fulsome,
- interminable,
- Undulant,
- asymmetrical,
- billowy,
- concealed,
- repetition,
- lofty,
- billowing,
- curvilineal,
- crack,
- anamorphous,
- Geosynclinal,
- muddled,
- timeserving,
- coil,
- roving,
- evasive,
- deformation,
- prolix,
- incurvate,
- endless,
- corrupt,
- Inkhorn,
- wiggly,
- convolutional,
- Big-sounding,
- hidden,
- confounding,
- stilted,
- circling,
- scolecoid,
- Rivose,
- mired,
- perplex,
- grandiose,
- asymmetric,
- spin,
- Daedalian,
- Lexiphanic,
- meretricious,
- orotund,
- sententious,
- circumlocutionary,
- pretentious,
- baffling,
- daedalean,
- cryptic,
- unsymmetric,
- snarly,
- enveloped,
- Curviform,
- unsettled,
- Undulatory,
- Flexuose,
- discursive,
- highfalutin,
- distorted,
- crumpled,
- cranky,
- Involuted,
- labyrinthian,
- occult,
- wavy,
- maundering,
- gnarly,
- gyrus,
- overdone,
- diffuse,
- recurved,
- Sprung,
- in petto,
- copious,
- gaudy,
- double-tongued,
- double-faced,
- private,
- snakelike,
- contortion,
- curvesome,
- rambling,
- Flaunting,
- maze-like,
- involutional,
- Curvated,
- nonsymmetric,
- crazy,
- revolve,
- squiggly,
- expand,
- maelstrom,
- spiroid.
Paraphrases for Tortuous:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
convoluted.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
onerous, tough, crooked, burdensome.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
arduous, laborious, circuitous, difficult, complicated, cumbersome, painful.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Tortuous:
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adj.
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very twisted
straight, straightforward, easy, untwisted, simple, uninvolved, uncomplicated, direct.
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Other antonyms:
straightaway, linear.
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very twisted