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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. [ 1913 Webster] The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. [ 1913 Webster] That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Injurious: tortious. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac ( from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [ Obs.] -- Skeat. [ 1913 Webster] Infortunate ascendent tortuous. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] --{ Tor" tu* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Tor" tu* ous* ness}, n. [ 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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