469 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ tˈɔːt͡ʃuːəs], [ tˈɔːt‍ʃuːəs], [ t_ˈɔː_tʃ_uː_ə_s]

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)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• punishing (adjective)
• roundabout (adjective)
• sinuous (adjective)
• snaky (adjective)
• tormenting (adjective)
• twisted (adjective)
• verbose (adjective)
• winding (adjective)
• zigzag (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• Byzantine
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for tortuous

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.
  • indirect (adjective)
  • 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.
  • intricate (adjective)
  • more high tech,
  • most hightech,
  • can worms,
  • most daedal,
  • more daedal,
  • most high-tech,
  • hightech,
  • more hightech,
  • more high-tech,
  • most high tech.
  • involved (adjective)
  • most ramified,
  • more ramified.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • circumlocutory,
  • indirect,
  • Daedal,
  • anfractuous,
  • long way home,
  • circuitous,
  • spiraling,
  • twisted,
  • digressory,
  • devious,
  • crooked,
  • wriggly,
  • zigzag,
  • tormenting,
  • longwinded,
  • Snaking,
  • labyrinthine,
  • detouring,
  • ambagious,
  • sidelong,
  • snaky,
  • high tech,
  • agonizing,
  • sinuous,
  • intricate,
  • by way of,
  • winding around,
  • roundabout,
  • long way,
  • verbose,
  • long way around,
  • high-tech,
  • winding.
  • punishing (adjective)
  • punishing,
  • penalizing,
  • Imprisoning,
  • distressing,
  • Persecuting,
  • anguishing,
  • confining,
  • Incarcerating,
  • Disciplining,
  • chastening,
  • burdensome,
  • Crucifying.
  • roundabout (adjective)
  • obliquitous,
  • taking the long way.
  • sinuous (adjective)
  • twisting and turning,
  • Undulating.
  • snaky (adjective)
  • more entwined,
  • writhing,
  • most entwined.
  • tormenting (adjective)
  • more suffering.
  • twisted (adjective)
  • more wound,
  • more braided,
  • most braided,
  • most curled,
  • more curled,
  • most wound.
  • verbose (adjective)
  • tautological,
  • yacking,
  • palaverous,
  • repetitious,
  • repetitive,
  • full of air,
  • Tautologous.
  • 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.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • complex,
  • bent.

• Other synonyms:

  • Byzantine
  • byzantine.
  •
  • Meandrous,
  • flexuous.
  •
  • oblique,
  • circular.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    convoluted.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    burdensome, crooked, onerous, tough.

• Other Related

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