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I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and educational, yes, but it was pretty tortuous.
Ashton Holmes

Meaning of "tortuous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TORTUOUS

tortuous  [ˈtɔːtjʊəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TORTUOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tortuous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TORTUOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tortuous in the English dictionary

The first definition of tortuous in the dictionary is twisted or winding. Other definition of tortuous is devious or cunning. Tortuous is also intricate.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TORTUOUS


contemptuous
kənˈtɛmptjʊəs
continuous
kənˈtɪnjʊəs
fastuous
ˈfæstjʊəs
fatuous
ˈfætjʊəs
fructuous
ˈfrʌktjʊəs
impetuous
ɪmˈpɛtjʊəs
incestuous
ɪnˈsɛstjʊəs
infructuous
ɪnˈfrʌktjʊəs
lituus
ˈlɪtjʊəs
presumptuous
prɪˈzʌmptjʊəs
spirituous
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəs
sumptuous
ˈsʌmptjʊəs
tempestuous
tɛmˈpɛstjʊəs
theftuous
ˈθɛftjʊəs
torrentuous
təˈrentjʊəs
tumultuous
tjuːˈmʌltjʊəs
unctuous
ˈʌŋktjʊəs
unfructuous
ʌnˈfrʌktjʊəs
untumultuous
ˌʌntjuːˈmʌltjʊəs
voluptuous
vəˈlʌptjʊəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TORTUOUS

tortricid
tortrix
torts lawyer
Tortuga
tortuosities
tortuosity
tortuously
tortuousness
torture
torture chamber
torture flight
torture porn
tortured
torturedly
torturer
torturesome
torturing
torturingly
torturous
torturously

WORDS THAT END LIKE TORTUOUS

anfractuous
arduous
conspicuous
contiguous
deciduous
discontinuous
disingenuous
flatuous
inconspicuous
innocuous
promiscuous
sensuous
sinuous
strenuous
superfluous
tenuous
unambiguous
unpresumptuous
unvirtuous
virtuous

Synonyms and antonyms of tortuous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TORTUOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tortuous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tortuous

Translation of «tortuous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TORTUOUS

Find out the translation of tortuous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tortuous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tortuous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

弯弯曲曲的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tortuoso
570 millions of speakers

English

tortuous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कपटपूर्ण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متعرج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

извилистый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tortuoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসরল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tortueux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggegarkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gewunden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

曲がりくねった
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구불구불한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tortuous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quanh co
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடினமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिळवटलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dolambaçlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tortuoso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kręta
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

звивистий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sinuos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρεβλό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kronkel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slingrig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kroket
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tortuous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TORTUOUS»

The term «tortuous» is regularly used and occupies the 62.163 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TORTUOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tortuous

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3 QUOTES WITH «TORTUOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tortuous.
1
Hesiod
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
2
Ashton Holmes
I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and educational, yes, but it was pretty tortuous.
3
Jane Wiedlin
I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TORTUOUS»

Discover the use of tortuous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tortuous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis
This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong.
Ming Sing, 2004
2
Wrestling with God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment of Religion
Wrestling with God not only reconciles the relationship between the two clauses but also distinguishes them in terms of their respective purposes.
Patrick M. Garry, 2006
3
The Tortuous Serpent: An Occult Adventure
Although the events are fictitious, the personalities of Dee and Kelley, the magical work, and the times in which they lived are historically accurate.
Donald Tyson, 1997
4
Mozambique [electronic resource]: the tortuous road to democracy
Without disregarding the role played by both Rhodesia and South Africa in the war-in fact providing new and detailed information about it-Joatilde;o Cabrita guides the reader through Frelimo's early days and gives a clear understanding of ...
João M. Cabrita, 2000
5
Crushed!: Navigating Africa's Tortuous Quest for Development ...
This book should refresh every reader, especially those that are ready to be objective and face some 'inconvenient truths', about the world... about themselves.
Tope Fasua, 2011
6
The Least You Should Know about Vocabulary Building: Word Roots
If you are driving along a little-traveled mountain road, you will certainly understand the meaning of tortuous. It comes from the root TORT to twist and means full of twists and turns. You can speak of a tortuous road, a tortuous path through the ...
Carol Friend, Laura Knight, Teresa Glazier, 2011
7
MRI and CT of the Female Pelvis
... women of reproductive age. The symptoms of chronic dull pelvic pain, pressure , and heaviness have been attributed to dilated, tortuous, and congested veins that are produced by retrograde flow through incompetent valves in ovarian veins .
Bernd Hamm, A.L: Baert, Rosemarie Forstner, 2007
8
The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body
If a tumour grows upon any part of the body requiring or exciting a greater flow of blood to the part, then we find that the vessels of the part, which in their natural state are nearly straight, assume a tortuous form at the same time that they are ...
John Bell, Sir Charles Bell, 1829
9
A Spot to Perch: A Tortuous Journey to Citizenship
The belief that a perfect spot to perch had been found was soon to be soured by the saga of two apparently innocuous tubers of yams whose combined value was less than one dollar.
Oliver Akamnonu, 2011
10
A Letter to the President of the U. States of America: ...
prehends the two shares ; then, the sum of all the areas, », p, y, 8, &c., which are intercepted by N n, and those parts of the tortuous boundary which lie on one side of it, is equal to the sum of a, b, c, d, &c., which are intercepted by N n, and by ...
John Lee, 1839

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TORTUOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tortuous is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dallas Fake Dentist Arrested After a Tortuous Housecall
A fake Dallas dentist and his assistant who took advantage of people without dental insurance were arrested and charged with practicing medicine without a ... «Newsmax, Jun 15»
2
Young Tasmanian woman describes 'tortuous' eating disorder …
Sitting at the kitchen table at her home in Forth in northern Tasmania, looking out over the green and brown patchwork of farming land, Mikayla Kenzie seems ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
3
THOMAS DIBACCO: Father's Day gift ties have tortuous history
Neckties are to Father's Day what flowers are to Mother's Day. But the ties haven't had the clear advantage that flowers-for-Mom have illustrated. From the time of ... «Washington Times, Jun 15»
4
The tortuous road to Naga peace
After the June 4 ambush in Manipur that left at least 20 soldiers of the Indian Army's 6 Dogra Regiment dead when suspected militants ambushed their convoy in ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
5
On Tortuous Road to Freedom, 'Angola Three' Inmate Bides His Time
NEW ORLEANS — Albert Woodfox has been close to the outside before, but rarely this close. He has spent nearly all of the past 43 years in a 55-square-foot ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
6
The Long, Tortuous History of the US and the Metric System
On Wednesday, when former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, his remarks on the occasion ... «TIME, Jun 15»
7
The Record: Ragi's 'tortuous' case
The current president of the board noted the "tortuous history" of a case spanning a decade, but while he said "the public's safety and interests are protected," he ... «NorthJersey.com, Apr 15»
8
Sri Lanka's Tortuous Path to Reconciliation and Justice
Elections might have ousted an authoritarian leader, but without the political will of Sri Lanka's new president, genuine reconciliation may continue to elude the ... «Foreign Policy, Apr 15»
9
The tortuous battle to bring Fred Goodwin to book
RBS: The tortuous battle to bring former chief Fred Goodwin to justice. Could a cache of private emails blow open the case against the man who sank the Royal ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
10
Andreas Lubitz, Germanwings co-pilot: The tortuous trail to 'Why?'
Montabaur, Germany (CNN) On the surface, Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz seemed, in the words of those who had known him, normal, capable, even ... «CNN, Mar 15»

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